-tu
Basque
Alternative forms
- (after -l- and -n-) -du
Suffix
-tu
- The most common verb-forming suffix.
Conjugation
See also
Estonian
Etymology
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Suffix
-tu (genitive -tu, partitive -tut, comparative -tum, superlative kõige -tum)
Inflection
Declension of -tu (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | -tu | -tud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | -tu | ||
genitive | -tute | ||
partitive | -tut | -tuid | |
illative | -tusse | -tutesse -tuisse | |
inessive | -tus | -tutes -tuis | |
elative | -tust | -tutest -tuist | |
allative | -tule | -tutele -tuile | |
adessive | -tul | -tutel -tuil | |
ablative | -tult | -tutelt -tuilt | |
translative | -tuks | -tuteks -tuiks | |
terminative | -tuni | -tuteni | |
essive | -tuna | -tutena | |
abessive | -tuta | -tuteta | |
comitative | -tuga | -tutega |
Derived terms
Finnish
Suffix
-tu (front vowel harmony variant -ty, linguistic notation -tU)
- Alternative form of -ttu
Anagrams
Garifuna
Suffix
-tu
- nominalizing suffix deriving agent nouns of feminine gender (see -ti for masculine).
Latin
Suffix
Old Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps cognate with Latin -tūs?”)
Suffix
-tu m
Inflection
Masculine t-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | |||
Vocative | |||
Accusative | |||
Genitive | |||
Dative | |||
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Pronoun
-tu (enclitic)
- enclitic form of þú
- Haralds saga hins hárfagra 41.
- Nú tóktu svá við sem várr konungr vildi.
- Lokasenna 24.
- En þik síða kóðu / Samseyju í / ok draptu á vétt sem vǫlur / vitka líki / fórtu verþjóð yfir / ok hugða ek þat args aðal
- Haralds saga hins hárfagra 41.
Usage notes
For reasons related to syntax, as well as Old Norse often explicitly stating the subject of verbs in the imperative, the verb is often followed by the subject pronoun. For þú, this is when it may take on an enclitic form. This is not to say, however, that whenever þú comes after a verb, it will always take an enclitic form. It could well stay separate for the sake of emphasis.
Which one of the variants -du, -ðu and -tu to use, is decided by the same rules that decide which dental suffix to take in the type 1 weak verbs. This form is used after hard consonants.
Descendants
This feature is also present in modern Icelandic verb conjugation, with its imperative forms with appended personal pronouns (though only in the second person).
See also
- Basque lemmas
- Basque suffixes
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian suffixes
- Estonian adjective-forming suffixes
- Estonian ohutu-type nominals
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish suffixes
- Finnish adjective-forming suffixes
- Garifuna lemmas
- Garifuna suffixes
- Garifuna terms with usage examples
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish suffixes
- Old Irish noun-forming suffixes
- Old Irish masculine suffixes
- Old Irish nouns with empty inflection tables
- Old Irish t-stem nouns
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse pronouns
- Old Norse clitics