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Chuukese
Suffix
-r
- (indirect object suffix) them
Estonian
Etymology
Mostly borrowed from Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”). Cognate to Finnish -ari, -uri.
Suffix
-r (genitive -ri, partitive -rit)
- Forms various agent nouns.
- kala "fish" → kalur "fisherman"
- tuupima "to study excessively" → tuupur "nerd"
- surfama "to surf" → surfar "surfer"
- õppima "to learn" → õppur "learner"
- rokk "rock music" → rokkar "rocker"
Declension
Derived terms
Finnish
Suffix
-r
- Alternative form of -ra
Suffix
-r
- Alternative form of -re
Irish
Etymology
From the Old Irish ro- (perfective prefix).
Suffix
-r
- A suffix added to certain preverbs and subordinating conjunctions when these occur with past tense verbs, and in the past/conditional copular form of these preverbs and conjunctions.
Derived terms
Old Norse
Etymology
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Suffix
-r
- denotes the nominative singular of adjectives, masculine a-stem, i-stem, u-stem, and an-stem, as well as feminine ijo-stem nouns
- denotes the nominative and accusative plurals of r- and consonant stem nouns
Declension
Strong declension of adjectives
Declension of -r (strong a-stem)
Declension of -r (weak an-stem)
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Declension of -r (strong i-stem, s and ar-genitives)
Declension of -r (strong u-stem)
Declension of -r (strong ijō-stem)
Descendants
Swedish
Pronunciation
Suffix
-r
- Suffix for the indefinite plural form of some of the nouns of the third declension, chiefly if they end in a stressed vowel except -e or -i, or if it ends in an unstressed -e.
- Suffix for the present tense, active voice, indicative mood (all persons) for a small number of Swedish verbs which ends in a vowel except -a in the infinitive; formally also for a large part of those verbs which do end in -a in infinitive.
- Hon går. ― She walks.
- Vi dansar ― We dance.
Usage notes
The modern treatment is to consider also the verbs which in present tense ends in -ar to use the suffix -r, even though they frequently are denoted -ar-verbs, as if the suffix would be -ar. However, the -a- is rather interpreted as being part of the stem of the verb.
See also
- plural suffix
- present tense suffix
Turkish
Suffix
-r
Post-vocalic form of -er.
- Simple present tense suffix.
- oku(-mak) – okur
- (to) read – he/she/it reads
Usage notes
- Personal suffixes are added after "-r".
- oku + -r + -um = okurum (I read)
- oku + -r + -sun = okursun (you read)
- oku + -r = okur (he/she/it reads)
- oku + -r + -uz = okuruz (we read)
- oku + -r + -sunuz = okursunuz (you read)
- oku + -r + -lar = okurlar (they read)
- If the verb ends in a consonant, then this suffix becomes "-ar", "-er", "-ır", "-ir", "-ur" or "-ür"
- -ar: yap – yapar, çık – çıkar, kon – konar, sun – sunar
- -er: et – eder, git – gider, sön – söner, büz – büzer
- -ır: kal – kalır, çıldır – çıldırır
- -ir: gel – gelir, veril – verilir
- -ur: ol – olur, bul – bulur
- -ür: gör – görür, ölün – ölünür