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English
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Etymology
From Middle English -ifien, from Old French -ifier, from Latin -ificare, from -ficus, from facio,
"make" or "do". For example, purify from purificare, from purificus.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ify
- To produce verbs meaning to make.
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Translations
to produce verbs meaning to make
- Afrikaans: -ifiseer, -fiseer
- Albanian: -ifikoj, -fikoj
- Arabic: فَعَّلَ (ar) (faʕʕala)
- Asturian: -ificar
- Azerbaijani: -laşdırmaq, -ləşdirmək
- Basque: -ifikatu, -fikatu
- Belarusian: -іфікаваць (-ifikavacʹ)
- Bulgarian: -ифицирам (-ificiram)
- Catalan: -ificar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: -化 (faa3)
- Hakka: -化 (fa)
- Hokkien: -化 (hoà)
- Mandarin: -化 (zh) (-huà)
- Czech: -ifikovat, -fikovat
- Danish: -ificere, -ficere
- Dutch: -ifiseren, -iseren (nl)
- Esperanto: -igi (eo)
- Finnish: -ntaa, -ntää, -staa, -stää, -ifioida, -fioida
- French: -ifier (fr)
- Galician: -ificar
- German: -fizieren (de), -ifizieren
- Greek: -ποιώ (el) (-poió)
- Hungarian: -ifikál, -ikál, -ít (hu), -sít (hu), -esít, -osít, -ösít, -asít
- Ido: -ifar, -ifikar
- Interlingua: -ificar, -ficar
- Italian: -ificare, -ficare (it)
- Japanese: -化する (ja) (-かする, -ka-suru) (化 (ja) (-か, -ka) + する (ja) (-suru))
- Korean: 화(化)하다 (-hwa-hada)
- Latin: -ifico
- Maltese: -ifika, -fika
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: -ifisere, -fisere
- Nynorsk: -ifisere, -fisere
- Occitan: -ificar, -ficar
- Polish: -fikować
- Portuguese: -ificar
- Romanian: -ifica
- Russian: -ифици́ровать (-ificírovatʹ)
- Spanish: -ificar (es)
- Swedish: -ifiera, -fiera (sv), -ificera, -ficera
- Turkish: -laştırmak, -leştirmek
- Ukrainian: -ифікува́ти (-yfikuváty)
- Vietnamese: ... hoá (vi) (-化)
- Yiddish: ־יפֿיצירן (-ifitsirn)
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