gående
Gående is the present participle of the Norwegian verb gå, meaning to go or to walk. As a participle it functions as an adjective and is used to describe someone or something that is in the act of moving on foot or in motion. It is commonly found in descriptions of people or traffic, and in compound nouns.
- Attributive use: en gående mann, en gående kvinne, et gående barn. In definite form: den gående
- Describing traffic or pedestrians: gående fotgjengere, gående trafikk. In safety or transport contexts, the term clarifies
- Gående inflects like an ordinary adjective, agreeing with gender and number in Norwegian. The participle can
- The form is used across Bokmål and is understood in neutral, descriptive prose. It represents a
- Gående derives from the Old Norse ganga, related to the Norwegian gå and to cognates in other
- Photographers and pedestrians in traffic safety terminology
- Present participles in Norwegian grammar
Gående thus serves as a concise, descriptive way to indicate movement by foot in Norwegian writing,
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