-ä

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See also: ä, -à, -á, -â, -ã, -ă, -ǎ, and Appendix:Variations of "a"

Finnish

Suffix

-ä

  1. Front vowel variant of -a

Gagauz

Alternative forms

  • -a (during vowel harmony with back vowels)
  • -ya, -yä (after vowels)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ـَه (ä/a), from Proto-Turkic *-ka. Compare Turkish -e, Azerbaijani -ə.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-ä

  1. Marks the dative case
    1. to, at
      ‎ev (“house”) + ‎-ä → ‎evä (“to the house”)
    2. for
      Synonym: için
      sadä sana
      just for you

Ingrian

Pronunciation 1

Suffix

-ä

  1. Front vowel variant of -a

Pronunciation 2

Suffix

-ä

  1. Front vowel variant of -a

Slovak

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ę.

Suffix

-ä n

  1. forms nouns for young animals and other diminutives

Usage notes

  • This suffix is used only after labio-dental and bilabial consonants; in other cases -a is used instead.

Declension

Declension of -ä
singular plural
nominative -ä -ätá, -ence
genitive -äťa -ät/-iat, -eniec
dative -äťu -ätom, -encom
accusative -ä -ätá, -ence
locative -äti -ätoch, -encoch
instrumental -äťou -ätami, -encami

Volapük

Suffix

-ä

  1. Used to form conjunctions from prepositions.
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