-ens

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See also: ens, ENS, Ens., -eņš, and -ēns

Catalan

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-ens

  1. masculine plural of
  2. masculine plural of

German

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Etymology 1

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-ens

  1. plural suffix for family names that end in a sibilant consonant
    Schmitz(die) Schmitzens (“the Schmitzes, “the Schmitz family”)
    Pütz(die) Pützens (“the Pützes, “the Pütz family”)

Etymology 2

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-ens

  1. (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant
    MaxMaxens Vater (“Max’s father”)
    KlausKlausens Mutter (“Klaus’s mother”)
  2. (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia
    ClaudiaClaudiens Tochter (“Claudia’s daughter”)
    MariaMariens Sohn (“Mary’s son”)
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  • In contemporary usage the genitive is usually left unchanged after sibilants, and indicated with an apostrophe in writing: Max’ Vater. Such unchanged genitives, in turn, are often avoided and paraphrased: der Vater von Max (colloquially: vom Max).
  • The genitive is formed with -s after -ia: Claudias, Marias. Only the form Mariens remains current, but it is restricted to the Virgin Mary.

Etymology 3

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-ens

  1. forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers
    der erste (the first)erstens (firstly)
    am meisten (most)meistens (mostly)
    am besten (best)bestens (very well; best)
    am frühesten (earliest)frühestens (at the earliest)
Usage notes
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  • Adverbs in -ens often have an absolute superlative sense, meaning “at most, maximally” or “very much, exceedingly”. These forms are widely lexicalized, however. That is to say that they cannot be formed freely, except in poetic or humorous language.

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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-ens

  1. A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix.
    ágens (agent)
    dekadens (decadent)

Usage notes

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  • Variants:
    -áns is added to back-vowel words
    -ens is added to front-vowel words

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Rebracketing of forms such as monēns (stem monē- + suffix -ns) or legēns (stem leg- + thematic vowel -e- + -ns).

    Suffix

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    -ēns

    1. ending of the present active participle of second and third conjugation verbs; see -ns

    Declension

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    Third-declension participle.

    Number Singular Plural
    Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
    Nominative -ēns -entēs -entia
    Genitive -entis -entium
    Dative -entī -entibus
    Accusative -entem -ēns -entēs
    -entīs
    -entia
    Ablative -ente
    -entī1
    -entibus
    Vocative -ēns -entēs -entia

    1When used purely as an adjective.

    Descendants

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    • Norwegian Bokmål: -ent

    Latvian

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    Suffix

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    -ens

    1. added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of -enis

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    Malay

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    Etymology

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    From English -ence, from Middle English -ence, from Old French -ence, from Latin -entia.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [-əns]
    • Hyphenation: -ens

    Suffix

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    -ens (Jawi spelling -نس)

    1. (unproductive) -ence.
      valensvalence

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