-ik

See also ik

Abenaki

Suffix

-ik

1. A suffix used to form the plurals of some animate words.

Usage notes

• Often used to form the plurals of words (especially nouns denoting people who have particular occupations or activities) which end in the consonant d or t (which causes the d or t to mutate into j: nodabônkad, "baker" → nodabônkajik, "bakers"); only rarely used to form the plurals of words ending in other letters (nodkwaag, notkwahag, "pilot" → nodkwaagik, notkwahagik, "pilots").
• See the usage notes at -ak.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ik/

Suffix

-ik

1. -s. The ending of a large group of verbs in third-person singular present tense indefinite conjugation.

   Sokat utazik. - He travels a lot.

2. The ending of front-vowel verbs in third-person plural present tense definite conjugation.

   néz (“to look”) → Nézik a tévét. - They are watching the television.

3. their ... -s (third-person plural possessive suffix denoting plural possession)

   kapu (“gate”) → a kapuik (“their gates”)

4. Specifies which one of a specific set of things/persons. Used with adjectives. See usage notes below.

   rosszabb (“worse”) → a rosszabbik (“the worse one”)

   más (different) - másik (another one) - a másik (the other one)

   A nagyobbik szobában Péter lakik. - In the bigger room lives Peter. (of a specific set of rooms)

Usage notes

• (possessive suffix): Member of the following suffix cluster.

  -ik is added to words ending in a vowel except -i. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  -aik is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant

  -eik is added to some front vowel words ending in a consonant

  -jaik is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i.

  -jeik is added to some front vowel words ending in a consonant or the vowel -i.

• (for adjectives): The -ik creates a determining adjective from a comparative adjective so it will answer to the question melyik? (“which?”). In a few cases it takes not a comparative but a basic adjective, which already incorporates the idea of comparison (e.g. más (“different”)). It is very often used with a definite article (a/az; "the").

See also

• Category:Hungarian verbs ending in -ik
• Category:Hungarian verbs suffixed with -ik
• Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

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Serbo-Croatian

Suffix

-ik (Cyrillic spelling -ик)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a profession, performer, place, object, tool or a feature.

See also

• -nik
• -enik
• -ovnik
• -evnik

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Volapük

Suffix

-ik

1. Used to form adjectives and determiners.