Dear Gunnar,
thank you for your informative answer. present gerund" and "past gerund
would be a solution.
Nina.
op 22-08-2005 16:44 schreef Gunnar Gällmo op gunnargallmo@...:

> I didn't understand this until I happened to look
> through a grammar of Polish, and found there the two
> forms "present gerund" and "past gerund",
> corresponding to "-ing" and "having -ed" respectively;
> so I suppose old Indo-European had two gerunds, and
> that the Indo-Arian languages have later lost one and
> the Romance languages the other, while the Slavic
> languages - or at least some of them - have retained
> both.