Used to form adverbs from adjectives and participles; these adverbs are used to modify phrases or sentences. Cognate with English -wise.
köken: From the genitive feminine singular adjective ending -er and the feminine noun Weise. This was originally an adverbial genitive first used in Middle High German. For example, lustiger Weise → lustig + -erweise → lustigerweise. Adverbs formed this way represent univerbations of genitive absolute adjective-noun phrases.
normal (“normal”) + -erweise → normalerweise (“normally”)
Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.
eş: -age, -ation, -tion
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *méntis Proto-Italic *mentis Latin mēns Latin mente Old French -ment Middle French -ment French -ment Inherited from Middle French -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin mente.
Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb; -ly.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *méntis Proto-Italic *mentis Latin mēns Old Spanish -mente Spanish -mente Inherited from Old Spanish -mente /-miente /-mientre, from Latin mente.
normal (“normal”) + -mente → normalmente (“normally, usually”)
Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *méntis Proto-Italic *mentis Latin mente Italian -mente Inherited from Latin mente.
при добавлении к основе прилагательного в положительной степени образует его сравнительную степень со значением бо́льшей степени качества ‖ иногда при этом в основе происходит выпадаение суффикса
Used to form adverbs from adjectives; -ly · Used to form adverbs from nouns; -ly
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *méntis Proto-Italic *mentis Latin mēns Old Galician-Portuguese -mente Portuguese -mente Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -mente, inherited from Latin mente. Compare Galician -mente.
köken: Derived from Old Swedish -līker, from Old Norse -ligr, -líkr, Proto-Germanic *-līkaz. Cognate with Icelandic -legur, Faroese -ligur, Norwegian Nynorsk -leg, Danish -lig and Norwegian Bokmål -lig.
Forms adverbs from adjectives describing the manner in which something is done; corresponds to the English suffix -ly. · Forms multiplicative adverbs describing how many times something is done; corresponds to the number + times structure in English. · Forms intensifying adverbs from certain nouns, which can be used with verbs or of large quantities.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-stik, equivalent to -sta (elative suffix) + -i (lative suffix). Cognate to Estonian -sti. For the use of an elative ending to derive such adverbs, compare Erzya -сто (-sto), -стэ (-stë), (-сте (-ste)) e.g. in вадрясто (vadŕasto), парсте (parste, “well, good”).
Added to an adjective to create an adverb. However, it cannot be added to adjectives suffixed with -i, -beli, -nyi, -tlan -talan, -atlan. · Added to a numeral or a pronoun with this sense to create an adverb, expressing the number of people.
pontos (“accurate”) + -an → pontosan (“accurately”)
hat (“six”) + -an → hatan (“six people, six of us/you/them”)
Forms adjectives from verbs, having the sense of "may be the object of"; -able. · Forms adjectives from nouns, having the sense of "possessing characteristics of"; -ous, -ly, -like. · Forms adjectives from nouns, having the sense of "occurring at such intervals"; -ly.
köken: From Old Danish -likær, -lik, from Old Norse -ligr (“-y, -ly, -like”), from Proto-Germanic *-līkaz (“-like, -ly”), from *līką (“body; corpse, dead body”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“similar, like; image, likeness”). Cognate with English -ly and German -lich
Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *méntis Proto-Italic *mentis Latin mēns Old Galician-Portuguese -mente Galician -mente Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -mente, from Latin mente. Compare Portuguese -mente.