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# ng

fragment (letters, abbreviation)

«ng» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (phonics) The letter pair «ng» that makes one sound, as at the end of sing, ring and long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#m1)
2. (abbreviation, informal) «no good», as in «that plan is NG». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#m2)
3. (abbreviation) A short code for Nigeria (NG) or for «National Guard» or «nanogram» (ng) in science. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#m3)

### In the lessons

In phonics lessons «ng» is a digraph: two letters, one sound, heard in king, song, thing, sing. It is not a word on its own. In text messages and some jobs «NG» means «no good». In science, «ng» is a nanogram, a billionth of a gram.

### Examples

- The words sing, ring and bang all end in «ng». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#x1)
- Can you think of five words with «ng» at the end? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#x2)
- In «finger» you can hear «ng» followed by a «g» sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#x3)
- The engineer wrote «NG» on the broken part, meaning no good. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#x4)
- NG is the country code for Nigeria. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#x5)
- A nanogram, written ng, is a billionth of a gram. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#x6)

### Note

Not an English word on its own. In phonics: «singer» has just the «ng» sound, but «finger» has «ng» plus a hard «g». Some names from other languages begin with Ng (for example Ng, a Chinese surname, or Ngozi, an Igbo name) — these are names.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ng» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ng» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ng.html) on Mova free.