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
vormt een bijvoeglijk naamwoord of een bijwoord uit een deelwoord of een bijvoeglijk naamwoord dat een manier aangeeft waarop een handeling plaatsheeft
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.