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Contents 1 Croatian 1.1 Suffix 1.2 See also 2 Esperanto 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Suffix 2.2.1 Derived terms 3 Finnish 3.1 Suffix 3.2 See also 4 French 4.1 Suffix 5 German 5.1 Suffix 6 Hungarian 6.1 Alternative spellings 6.2 Pronunciation 6.3 Suffix 6.3.1 Usage notes 6.4 See also 7 Ido 7.1 Suffix 7.2 Usage notes 8 Italian 8.1 Suffix 9 Old English 9.1 Suffix 10 Romanian 10.1 Etymology 1 10.1.1 Suffix 10.1.1.1 Usage notes 10.1.1.2 Alternative forms 10.2 Etymology 2 10.2.1 Suffix 10.2.1.1 Usage notes 10.2.1.2 Related terms 11 Swedish 11.1 Suffix 12 Turkish 12.1 Suffix 12.2 Alternative spellings

[edit] Croatian

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-e

1. Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually denoting a young animal, plant, place name or is used as a collective noun.
2. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine or neuter noun, denoting persons (mainly proper nouns) and having various other meanings.

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• -je

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Etymology

• Latin and Italian adverbial -e (as in bene "well"); perhaps reinforced by the Russian adverbial -e found after a palatalized consonant.
• Perhaps from the above; perhaps also Russian где "where"

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-e

1. -ly; used to form adverbs.

   bona ("good") + -e ("-ly"): bone ("well")

   unu ("one") + -e ("-ly"): unue ("firstly")

2. -e is the ending for correlatives of place

[edit] Derived terms

• kie: where?, where
• tie: there
• ĉie: everywhere
• ie: somewhere
• nenie: nowhere

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[edit] Finnish

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-e

1. Used for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives.

   ottaa "to take (hold of)" -> ote "grip"

   paha "bad, evil" -> pahe" "vice"

   ääntää "to pronounce, enunciate" -> äänne "sound (in phonetics)"

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• -ke

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[edit] French

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-e f.

1. Used to form the feminine of adjectives.

   fort + -e: forte

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[edit] German

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-e

1. used to form nouns from adjectives; the nouns express the quality of the adjective

   stark 'strong' > Stärke 'strength'

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[edit] Hungarian

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• -é (rare, alternative only for the suffix for tag questions)

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛ/

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-e

1. Suffix for tag (yes/no) questions. Not needed for all such questions: in most cases a question is indicated only by emphasis and question mark. Always attached to the main word (usually the verb) of the predicate of the phrase. Always written with a hyphen.

   Nem tudom, voltál-e már Budapesten. - I don't know if you've ever been in Budapest.

   1857, János Arany, A walesi bárdok (The Bards of Wales)

   Van-e ott folyó és földje jó? / Is there a river and is its land good?

   Legelőin fű kövér / Are the grasses rich on its meadows?

   Használt-e a megöntözés: / Was the watering useful (i.e. to the meadows):

   A pártos honfivér? / The rebel's blood?

2. his, her, its (third-person singular possessive suffix denoting singular possession)

   élet (“‘life’”) → az élete (“‘his/her/its life’”)

[edit] Usage notes

• (possessive suffix): Member of the -a/-e/-ja/-je suffix cluster.

  -a is added to back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -e is added to front vowel words ending in a consonant

  -ja is added to back vowel words ending in a consonant or a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-.

  -je is added to front vowel words ending in a consonant or a vowel. Final -e changes to -é-.

[edit] See also

• e (pronoun)
• Category:Hungarian noun forms - possessive
• Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes

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[edit] Ido

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-e

1. -ly; used to form suffixes

[edit] Usage notes

Any adjective can be converted into an adverb by swapping the -a suffix by -e.

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[edit] Italian

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-e

1. Used with a stem to form the third-person present of regular -ere verbs and those -ire verbs that don't take "isco"

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[edit] Old English

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-e

1. forming adverbs from adjectives; -ly

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin -ae (“‘first-declension ending’”)

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-e

1. (plural) -s (feminine/neuter)

[edit] Usage notes

• This form of the plural is indefinite, and used for feminine nouns in the nominative/accusative and genitive/dative cases which end in -ă, and some neuter nouns (with may or may not take plural -uri):
• mame < mamă, fem.
• vise (also visuri) < vis, neut.

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• -le

[edit] Etymology 2

Possibly from Latin -e (“‘second-declension vocative ending’”)

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-e

1. Vocative singular (masculine/neuter)

Oh!

[edit] Usage notes

• This suffixed used with masculine and neuter definite nouns in -l and -ul):

bărbatule! < bărbatul, masc.

tatăle! < tatăl, masc.

visule! < visul, neut.

• This suffix is absorbed in masculine and neuter definite nouns in -le:

fratele! < fratele, masc.

numele! < numele, neut.

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• -o

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[edit] Swedish

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-e

1. Conjugates verbs into the subjunctive mood (archaic except for the past subjunctive of vara: vore)
2. Marker of definiteness on past participles ending in -ad
3. Marker of plural on past participles ending in -ad
4. Marker of definiteness on superlatives ending in -ast
5. Marker of definiteness on adjectives describing nouns with masculine semantic gender (sex)

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[edit] Turkish

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-e

1. to (It makes the word dative form)

[edit] Alternative spellings

• -ye
• -a
• -ya