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Russian
Suffix
-я́шка • (-jáška) f or m
- suffix used to form diminutive nouns from nouns and adjectives, often indicating a (small) object with a given quality
- вку́сный (vkúsnyj, “tasty”) + -я́шка (-jáška) → вкусня́шка (vkusnjáška, “delicacy, something yummy”)
- стекло́ (stekló, “glass”) + -я́шка (-jáška) → стекля́шка (stekljáška, “a small piece of glass, a glass object”)
- suffix used to form colloquial singular terms for identical siblings
- дво́йня (dvójnja, “(a pair of) twins”) + -я́шка (-jáška) → двойня́шка (dvojnjáška, “a twin”)
- тро́йня (trójnja, “(a set of) triplets”) + -я́шка (-jáška) → тройня́шка (trojnjáška, “a triplet”)
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