-e

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[edit] Croatian

[edit] Suffix

-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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[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"

[edit] Suffix

-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

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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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[edit] French

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-e f.

  1. Used to form the feminine of adjectives.
    fort + -e: forte

[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'

[edit] Hungarian

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

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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-.

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[edit] Ido

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-e

  1. -ly; used to form suffixes

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


[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"

[edit] Old English

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-e

  1. forming adverbs from adjectives; -ly

[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 , and some neuter nouns (with may or may not take plural -uri):
  • mame < mamă, fem.
  • vise (also visuri) < vis, neut.
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[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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[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)

[edit] Turkish

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-e

  1. to (It makes the word dative form)

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