Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

listening

/ˈlɪs.nɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of listen

Forms listenings

adjective Of something or someone that listens. “Any listening person can tell she's lying.”
adjective Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. “He could hear better when he used his listening device.”
adjective Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
noun An act by which something or somebody is listened to. “This symphony grows on me more and more with each listening.”
noun An educational exercise involving listening. “OK, students, today we're going to do a couple of listenings about the environment, then a reading about crime.”
noun Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. “You can improve your listening well by watching English-language films.”

Synonyms

From Middle English listnynge, lustninde, from Old English hlysnende, equivalent to listen + -ing.

From Middle English listnynge, lustnynge, lystenynge, equivalent to listen + -ing.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “listening”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “listening” (best matches first).

उपश्रुत्य upa-śrutya listening to.
आकर्णन ā-karṇana hearing, listening.
श्राव śrāva hearing, listening.
श्रोषमाण śroṣamāṇa hearing, listening.
उपश्रोतृ upa-śrotṛ a listener, hearer, listening to.
शृण्वत् śṛṇvat hearing, listening to, hearkening.
संश्रव saṃ-śrava hearing or listening attentively; promise, assent, agreement.
ग्रसमान grasamāna swallowing, devouring; receiving, listening to anything eagerly.