gevende

Gevende is a linguistic term that refers to a form related to the Dutch verb geven, which means to give. In contemporary standard Dutch, the present participle of geven is typically gevend; gevende is not common in everyday usage and is largely found only in historical texts, regional dialects, or specific poetic or formal registers as an archaic or stylized variant.

Etymology and formation: Gevende is linked to the broader patterns of participle formation in Dutch. While the typical present participle ends in -end (such as gevend), gevende appears in older language stages and in some dialectal writings as an attributive or descriptive form. The exact frequencies and stylistic functions of gevende vary by period and corpus, but it is generally regarded as nonstandard in modern standard Dutch.

Usage and examples: Because gevende is largely historical or literary, it is rarely used in contemporary speech. In modern Dutch, one would normally express the ongoing action of giving with forms such as gevend if encountered in a very old text, or more commonly with gevend-like constructions rephrased as "die aan het geven is" or simply "geeft." When gevende does appear, it signals a deliberately archaic or stylistic choice and is primarily of interest to scholars of Dutch grammar and philology.

See also: geven, gevend, gegeven, Dutch grammar, Dutch historical linguistics.