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# ng

«ng» in Mova's school dictionary: **The letter pair «ng» that makes one sound, as at the end…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

fragment (letters, abbreviation)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (phonics) The letter pair «ng» that makes one sound, as at the end of sing, ring and long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#m1)

2) (abbreviation, informal) «no good», as in «that plan is NG». [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ng» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ng/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.