Cross-language.... something

[afuna]

Trying to find an English word which sounds out like "ng+g" (not necessarily spelled that way), to prove (or maybe disprove) a point in a conversation.

I thought "finger" was close, but it turns out it's pronounced "fin+ger", rather than "fing+ger", huh.

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[afuna]

Oooh I just thought of a way to differentiate the pronunciation:

nang : hang :: ng :: hung

"ng" is pretty close to "of"; not exactly equivalent, but anywhere you can use "of", you can use "ng". It's just that there's a few more uses for it.

"Nang" is hmm it's a part of speech I usually see with adverbs, where it's actually "na" + a connective "ng" which is used when a word ending in a vowel comes before a word beginning with a consonant (this is unrelated to the ng-which-means-of, because the connecting "ng" is just sound, not additional meaning).

Example:
Tumawa nang malakas = laughed loud
laugh (nang) loud

Kumain ng karne = ate meat (here "ng" doesn't map to "of", I don't think *g*
ate (ng) meat