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Why a building called a building if its already built

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It is because the “building” word that denotes infrastructures is a gerund. Gerunds are nouns that came from verbs + a suffix “ing". So in this case, “building” comes from the verb “built" (which implies that something is already done building something) + the “-ing”.
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