-ing; forms nouns from verbs, usually describing either an event in which an action is carried out, or the result of that action.
köken: From Middle High German -ung, -unge, from Old High German -unga, from Proto-West Germanic *-ungu, from Proto-Germanic *-ungō. More at English -ing.
rechnen (“to reckon”) + -ung → die Rechnung (“the reckoning, the bill”)
entdecken (“to discover”) + -ung → die Entdeckung (“the discovery”)
erinnern (“to remind”) + -ung → die Erinnerung (“the reminder, the remembrance, the memory”)
Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X". · Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X". · Forming collective nouns.
eş: -ment
köken: Inherited from Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum, greatly extended from words like rivage and voyage.
forms masculine nouns expressing an action, quantity, location, period of time, etc. · forms masculine nouns with the sense of collection; -age · forms nouns
köken: Borrowed from Old French -age or Old Occitan -atge, both from Latin -āticum. Doublet of -azgo. Cognate with Catalan -atge, French -age, Italian -aggio, Portuguese -agem, Romanian -aj.
Forms uncountable nouns, from verbs, meaning the practice of doing what is expressed by the verb. · Forms nouns, from verbs, meaning an instance of doing what is expressed by the verb. · Forms nouns, from nouns expressing a type of person, meaning attitude or an act expected from that kind of person.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese -age, from Old French -age or Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum. Final -m and gender change influenced by words such as imagem. Doublet of -ático.
added to a verb to form a noun for an action or process, the result of or the subject performing such action · designates a person of a certain origin or with certain qualities
köken: From Old Norse -ing, -ung, from Proto-Germanic *-ingō, *-ungō.
-age; (a noun that means a unspecified quantity of some noun) · -age, -ery; (a noun that means the state of being some noun) · -age, -ing; (a noun that means the action or effect of some verb)
köken: From Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.
-age; forms nouns indicating an action or result related to the root verb · -age; forms nouns indicating collection or appurtenance
köken: From Latin -āticum (possibly passing through an adstratum). Compare Occitan -atge, French -age, Italian -atico/-aggio, Spanish -aje. Doublet of -aggiu, now prevalent.