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Catalan
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens
German
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens
- 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
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens
- (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant
- Max → Maxens Vater (“Max’s father”)
- Klaus → Klausens Mutter (“Klaus’s mother”)
- (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia
- Claudia → Claudiens Tochter (“Claudia’s daughter”)
- Maria → Mariens Sohn (“Mary’s son”)
Usage notes
[edit]- 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
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens
- forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers
Usage notes
[edit]- 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.
References
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens
- A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix.
Usage notes
[edit]- Variants:
- -áns is added to back-vowel words
- -ens is added to front-vowel words
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Rebracketing of forms such as monēns (stem monē- + suffix -ns) or legēns (stem leg- + thematic vowel -e- + -ns).
Suffix
[edit]-ēns
- ending of the present active participle of second and third conjugation verbs; see -ns
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]- Norwegian Bokmål: -ent
Latvian
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens
- added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of -enis
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English -ence, from Middle English -ence, from Old French -ence, from Latin -entia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ens (Jawi spelling -نس)
- (unproductive) -ence.
- valens ― valence
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- -ans (“-ance”)
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