ending

noun

1. A termination or conclusion.
2. The last part of something.

   “The book has a happy ending.”

   “The film has an unexpected ending.”

   “Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.”

3. The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

   “Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.”

   “Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of end