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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English -acioun, -acion, from Old French acion, -ation, from Latin -ātiō, an alternative form of -tiō (whence -tion). Equivalent to -ate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ation
- An action or process
- sediment + -ation → sedimentation
- The result of an action or process
- A state or quality
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
-ation (suffix)
- Afrikaans: -asie, -sie, -ering
- Albanian: -im
- Arabic: ـِيَّة (-iyya)
- Armenian: -ում (-um)
- Asturian: -ación f, -ción f
- Azerbaijani: -asiya
- Belarusian: -а́цыя f (-ácyja)
- Bulgarian: -а́ция f (-ácija)
- Catalan: -ació f, -ció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: -化 (faa3)
- Hakka: -化 (fa)
- Hokkien: -化 (hoà)
- Mandarin: -化 (zh) (-huà)
- Czech: -ace f
- Danish: -ation (da) c, -tion c, -ering c
- Dutch: -atie (nl) f, -tie (nl) f, -ering f
- Estonian: -atsioon
- Finnish: -aatio
- French: -ation (fr) f, -ation (fr) f
- Middle French: -ation
- Old French: -ation, -acion
- Galician: -ación f, -ción (gl) f
- German: -ation (de) f, -tion (de) f, -ierung (de) f
- Hungarian: -áció
- Indonesian: -sasi (id), -asi (id), -si
- Italian: -zione f
- Japanese: -化 (ja) (-か, -ka)
- Korean: 화(化) (-hwa)
- Latvian: -ācija f, -cija f
- Lithuanian: -acija f, -cija f
- Macedonian: -а́ција f (-ácija)
- Malay: -asi
- Norman: -âtion f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: -asjon m, -sjon (no) m, -ering f
- Nynorsk: -asjon m, -sjon m, -ering f
- Occitan: -acion f, -cion f
- Persian: ی
- Polish: -acja
- Portuguese: -ação f, -ção (pt) f
- Romanian: -are, -ire
- Russian: -ение n (-enije), -а́ция f (-ácija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: -ација f
- Roman: -acija f
- Slovak: -ácia f
- Slovene: -acija f
- Spanish: -ación f, -ción (es) f
- Swedish: -ation (sv), -tion (sv) c, -ring c
- Ukrainian: -а́ція f (-ácija)
- Vietnamese: ... hoá (vi) (-化)
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Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old French -ation, borrowed from Latin -ātiōnem. Compare the inherited doublet -aison.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ation f (plural -ations)
- -ation
Derived terms
Middle English
Suffix
-ation
- Alternative form of -acioun
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French -ation.
Suffix
-ation
- -ation
Descendants
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin -ātiō, -ātiōnem.
Suffix
-ation
- -ation
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English -ation.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ation
- (humorous) used instead of -ação to give the word an air of formality
- enrolar (“to beat around the bush”) + -ation → enrolation (“beating around the bush”)
- faturar (“to profit”) + -ation → faturation (“profits”)