-гийн

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Mongolian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Suffix

-гийн • (-giin)

  1. Marks the genitive case:
    1. In the regular declension after a stem ending in a long vowel other than ⟨ий⟩.
      ‎даваа (davaa, “difficulty”) + ‎-гийн (-giin) → ‎даваагийн (davaagiin, “of difficulty”)
    2. In the regular declension after a stem ending in the diphthong ⟨иа⟩, ⟨ио⟩ or ⟨иу⟩.
      ‎медиа (media, “media”) + ‎-гийн (-giin) → ‎медиагийн (mediagiin, “of media”)
    3. In the hidden-g declension.
      ‎орвон (orvon) + ‎орвонгийн (orvongiin) + ‎-гийн (-giin) → ‎of the root
  2. Forms patronymics.

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