Phonetics is one of the most complex sciences that study the structure of language. It seems difficult not only to specialists, but also to ordinary people. The most common phonetic error is an incorrectly placed accent. Moreover, errors in some words are so common that many consider them to be the norm of pronunciation. One of the words that often make mistakes in stress is “bleeding”.
The lexical meaning
From the first glance at the studied verb, it becomes clear that its meaning is associated with blood: to exude, secrete blood, bleed:
- We need to get to the hospital as soon as possible, the wounds of the brave soldier bleed heavily.
- Despite the lengthy and costly treatment, the terrible wounds on her feet continued to bleed.
- The cat returning home was a miserable sight: the ear was torn, the nose was knocked down and bleeding, the legs were bent, the eyes fester and watery.
The verb can be used in a figurative meaning:
- A mother’s heart begins to bleed from one glance at the suffering of her children.
- Anna Nikolaevna’s soul bleed in separation from her beloved, but she could not disobey strict parents.
- I look at the torment of my native people, and my eyes are bleeding with grief.
Morphological characteristics and stress
Bleeding is an irrevocable, intransitive verb of an imperfect form. The emphasis falls on the last syllable (some mistakenly make the shock third “o”), in personal forms the ending is also stressed.
| Face / time | Present | Past tense | Future tense |
| I AM | bleeding | Bleeding / Bleeding / Bleeding / Bleeding | I will bleed |
| You | bleeding | Bleeding / Bleeding / Bleeding / Bleeding | you will bleed |
| He / she / it / wound | bleeding | Bleeding / Bleeding / Bleeding / Bleeding | will bleed |
| we | bleeding them | bleeding or | we will bleed |
| You | bleed | bleeding or | will bleed |
| They / wounds | bleeding | bleeding or | will bleed |
Gang words
Not only the stress in the verb "bleed" causes difficulties, but also the writing of unstressed vowels. Some of them can be checked by choosing the same root words:
- blood;
- to bleed;
- blood;
- consanguineous;
- krovochka;
- bloodline;
- blood vessels;
- bloody;
- hematopoietic;
- circulatory;
- bloodthirsty;
- bloody;
- bleeding;
- bloody;
- cold-blooded;
- bloodless.
When studying one-root words, it becomes clear that in almost everyone with stress everything is simple, the exception is the stress in the word "bleeding" and its word forms: bleeding, bleeding, bleeding.