-bo
Danish
Suffix
-bo
- inhabitant of
Declension
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow, become, come into being, appear”). Compare fīō (“I become”).
Suffix
-bō
- Used to form some inflected forms of the verbs.
Conjugation
It correlates with the conjugation of the present active indicative forms as well as the present active subjunctive forms of the third conjugation:
| Original form | Derived form | 1s | 2s | 3s | 1p | 2p | 3p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present active indicative | Future active indicative | -bō | -bis | -bit | -bimus | -bitis | -bunt |
| Present active subjunctive | Imperfect active indicative | -bam | -bās | -bat | -bāmus | -bātis | -bant |
| Present passive indicative | Future passive indicative | -bor | -beris | -bitur | -bimur | -biminī | -buntur |
| Present passive subjunctive | Imperfect passive indicative | -bar | -bāris | -bātur | -bāmur | -bāminī | -bantur |
Swedish
Suffix
-bo
- Used to form the names of residents or inhabitants of particular places, in particular towns/cities.
Usage notes
-bo will work in almost all cases; -are is more common for certain towns/cities. But also in those cases, -bo should be considered valid. Note that in some cases, typically when the name of the location is a compound word, an extra -s- is inserted before -bo. E.g. Stockholmsbo.
-it is even less common, denotes a person with very strong bonds towards the town/city in question; someone who lived there all of his/her life, possibly even with ancestors who lived there too. Only a few towns/cities actually gives rise to commonly used -it-forms, notably Malmö ("Malmöit").
Derived terms
See also
Taos
Pronunciation
Postposition
-bo