A suffix of verbs in their infinitive form. · A suffix indicating the 1st and 3rd person plural forms (except the present indicative sind of sein). · A suffix appended to strong verb stems to form the past participle, usually together with ge-.
köken: From Middle High German -en, a merger of various terminations in Old High German reflecting different conjugational patterns, namely -an, -ōn, -en (-ien), and -nen, from Proto-Germanic *-aną, *-ōną, *-janą, *-āną, and *-naną.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Old Spanish -ar Spanish -ar Inherited from Old Spanish -ar, from Latin -āris.
Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives. The stem of the word itself does not change.
köken: Primarily from weak class 2, from Middle Dutch -en, from Old Dutch -on, from Proto-West Germanic *-ōn, from Proto-Germanic *-ōną, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti (denominative) and *-h₂ti (factitive). Also partially from weak class 1 (Old Dutch -en, from Proto-West Germanic *-jan) and strong verbs (Old Dutch -an, from Proto-West Germanic *-an), which, together with the weak class 2 suffix, all…
groot + -en → de groten (“the great ones”)
een + -en → ten enen male
de hertog + -en → des hertogen, a genitive preserved in 's-Hertogenbosch
forms verbs from nouns or adjectives — forms regular first-conjugation verbs in the impersonal infinitive · forms the first-person singular infinitive of first-conjugation verbs · forms the third-person singular infinitive of first-conjugation verbs
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old Galician-Portuguese -ar Portuguese -ar Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese -ar, from Latin -āre, infinitive ending of first conjugation verbs.
Marker of definiteness on nouns in the plural (except for nouns of the fourth and some of the fifth declension).
köken: From the plural of Old Norse hinn (demonstrative pronoun), suffixed to the end of the noun stem. Usually corresponds to Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk -ne.
used to form the infinitive · forms neutral imperatives when used without a verb · forms verbs from nouns or adjectives
köken: Etymology tree Prakrit -𑀅𑀡 (-aṇa) Prakrit -𑀓- (-ka-) Hindi -ना Inherited from Prakrit -𑀅𑀡 (-aṇa) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Sanskrit -अन (-ana), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *-anam, from Proto-Indo-European *-onom, from *-o- (thematic vowel) + *-nom (verbal noun suffix). Doublet of -अन (-an). Cognate with German -en (“infinitive ending”).
कर (kar, “do (stem)”) + -ना (-nā) → करना (karnā, “to do”)
that (conjunction indicating that the subordinate clause is the object of the verb of the main clause) · that (introducing a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect) · that (introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause)
eş: jotta
köken: From Proto-Finnic *että, from Proto-Uralic *e- (“this”) + -tta (suffix indicating manner). Cognate with Estonian et, Erzya эте (ete), while the Uralic root is also found in Hungarian ez. According to Häkkinen (2004), the original sense was probably “like this, thus”; semantic influence from the similar-sounding Swedish att, Old Swedish at is likely, and probably occurred in the written language.
aile: sekä ... että
On hauskaa, että tulit.
Tiedän, että osaan tehdä sen.
Hän sanoi, että kaikki kääntyisi vielä parhain päin.
-ify, added to a noun, adjective, verb or other stem to form a verb expressing causation (make something ...-like).
köken: It can be traced back to the ancient multi-element Finno-Ugric (Uralic) *-kt, the elements of which are the frequentative *-k and the causative -t. In Hungarian, regular phonological development caused this *-kt to first become -χt, then -it. The -i formed a diphthong with the vowel at the end of the stem in front of it, which is the origin of the -ajt / -ejt variants that still exists today in…
alap (“base”) + -ít → alapít (“to found”)
szép (“beautiful”) + -ít → szépít (“to make more beautiful”)
áll (“to stand”) + -ít → állít (“to assert, claim”)
present active infinitive of -ō (third conjugation)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-ezi Latin -ere From Proto-Italic *-ezi, from Proto-Indo-European *-esi, locative case of action nouns, which end in *-os in the nominative. Similar to Ancient Greek -ειν (-ein) < *-ehen, which comes from an alternative locative case form, *-esen. Note adverbial temere.
Used with some adjectives to form inchoative verbs meaning "to become [adjective]". · From adjectives, forms causative verbs meaning "to make [adjective]".
Inherited from Latin -īre, the ending of the present active infinitive form of fourth conjugation verbs. Cognate with Spanish -ir, Italian -ire, Romanian -i and -î, etc.