-ers
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See -er
Suffix[edit]
-ers
- (informal, originally school slang) Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- (informal, originally school slang) Used to form mostly adjectives used informally.
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Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch -ers, a chiefly dialectal plural morpheme equivalent to standard Dutch -eren (whence Afrikaans -ere).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Suffix[edit]
-ers
- forms the plural of three nouns, all of which denote young creatures
Usage notes[edit]
- The colloquial plurale tantum goeters (“things, stuff”) is only etymologically an inflection of goed (“a good”), whose true plural is goedere.
- Two other Afrikaans nouns are backformations from plurals originally using the suffix -ers: eier (“egg”, from Dutch ei) and hoender (“chicken”, from Dutch hoen).