gerundilaadne
Gerundilaadne is a term used in linguistics to describe forms or constructions that behave like gerunds in the sense that they nominalize a verb and function as a noun or noun phrase within a sentence. The label is applied in theoretical discussions to cover related phenomena across languages, including verbal nouns formed from verbs, participial phrases that function as nouns, and certain verbal adjectives that convey action as a concept.
In English, the classic gerund is a verb form ending in -ing that functions as a noun,
Distinctions: The term gerundilaadne is not always consistently separated from broader categories like verbal noun or
See also: Gerund, Verbal noun, Nominalization, Non-finite clause, Participial phrase.