-ä

See also: ä, -à, -á, -â, -ã, -ă, -ǎ, and Appendix:Variations of "a"

Finnish

Suffix

-ä

1. Front vowel variant of -a

Gagauz

Alternative forms

• -a (during vowel harmony with back vowels)
• -ya, -yä (after vowels)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ـَه (ä/a), from Proto-Turkic *-ka. Compare Turkish -e, Azerbaijani -ə.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ/

Suffix

-ä

1. Marks the dative case
   1. to, at

      ‎ev (“house”) + ‎-ä → ‎evä (“to the house”)

   2. for

      Synonym: için

      sadä sana

      just for you

Ingrian

Pronunciation 1

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-æ/, [-æ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-æ/, [-æ]

Suffix

-ä

1. Front vowel variant of -a

Pronunciation 2

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-æ/, [-æ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-æ/, [-æ]

Suffix

-ä

1. Front vowel variant of -a

Slovak

Alternative forms

• -a

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ę.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛɐ̯]

Suffix

-ä n

1. forms nouns for young animals and other diminutives

Usage notes

• This suffix is used only after labio-dental and bilabial consonants; in other cases -a is used instead.

Declension

Declension of -ä
(pattern dievča)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	-ä	-ätá	-ence
genitive	-äťa	-ät, -iat	-eniec
dative	-äťu	-ätám	-encom
accusative	-ä	-ätá	-ence
locative	-äti	-ätách	-encoch
instrumental	-äťom	-ätami	-encami

Volapük

Suffix

-ä

1. Used to form conjunctions from prepositions.