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Albanian
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Etymology
-hem is the Tosk and Standard Albanian variant of the Gheg personal suffix -hna (“I, me”). Compound of mediopassive marker h + -em (“I, me”) personal suffix. Indicating 1st person singular (mediopassive, present). Used the same way as Greek verb and personal suffix "-μαι/-mai" (also 1st pers., sg., mediopassive, indicative, present).
See Albanian -em for more.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-hem
- suffix used for 1st person singular (mediopassive voice) - indicative, present form. Not used for verbs ending with h- (such as shpreh, eh, etc.; in this case suffix -em is used)
- Forms verbs in mediopassive voice from active voice
- active bëj (“I do, make, appear”) + -hem → mediopassive bëhem (“I become, turn into”)
- Forms mediopassive verbs from adjectives
- adjective shkurt (“short”) + o-stem + -hem → mediopassive verb shkurtohem (“I become shorter”)
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