-ej
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Between the 14 and 16 century a process of changing the vowel ý ([iː]) into ej ([ɛj]) appeared in the Czech language,[1] but most of the new variants have never made it into standard Czech (including new variants of adjective inflectional suffixes).[2]
Suffix edit
-ej
- (inflectional suffix, common, nonstandard) masculine nominative singular of hard adjectives
- dobrej (“good”)
Etymology 2 edit
Suffix ej appears also in various regional Czech dialects as an inflectional suffix of some cases of feminine adjectives. While in dative and locative it appears in some Moravian regions, in genitive it can be found also in some Bohemian regions, especially in south Bohemia.[3]
Suffix edit
-ej
- (inflectional suffix, dialect) feminine genitive singular of hard adjectives
- (inflectional suffix, dialect) feminine dative singular of hard adjectives
- (inflectional suffix, dialect) feminine locative singular of hard adjectives
References edit
- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “-ej”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 32
- ^ František Cuřín, Nejstarší obrozenské divadlo a obrozenská čeština, Naše řeč, volume 68 (1985), issue 5
- ^ Hana Konečná, Deklinace tvrdých adjektiv v nářečích, Naše řeč, volume 82 (1999), issue 4
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ej
- (noun-forming suffix) Added to an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root to form a noun. No longer productive.
- zörej (“noise”)
Usage notes edit
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -aj is added to back-vowel stems
- -ej is added to front-vowel stems
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | -ej | -ejek |
| accusative | -ejt | -ejeket |
| dative | -ejnek | -ejeknek |
| instrumental | -ejjel | -ejekkel |
| causal-final | -ejért | -ejekért |
| translative | -ejjé | -ejekké |
| terminative | -ejig | -ejekig |
| essive-formal | -ejként | -ejekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | -ejben | -ejekben |
| superessive | -ejen | -ejeken |
| adessive | -ejnél | -ejeknél |
| illative | -ejbe | -ejekbe |
| sublative | -ejre | -ejekre |
| allative | -ejhez | -ejekhez |
| elative | -ejből | -ejekből |
| delative | -ejről | -ejekről |
| ablative | -ejtől | -ejektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
-ejé | -ejeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
-ejéi | -ejekéi |
| Possessive forms of -ej | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | -ejem | -ejeim |
| 2nd person sing. | -ejed | -ejeid |
| 3rd person sing. | -eje | -ejei |
| 1st person plural | -ejünk | -ejeink |
| 2nd person plural | -ejetek | -ejeitek |
| 3rd person plural | -ejük | -ejeik |