-ens
Catalan edit
Suffix edit
-ens
German edit
Etymology 1 edit
Suffix edit
-ens
- plural suffix for family names that end in a sibilant consonant
- Schmitz → (die) Schmitzens (“the Schmitzes, “the Schmitz family”)
- Pütz → (die) Pützens (“the Pützes, “the Pütz family”)
Etymology 2 edit
Suffix edit
-ens
- (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant
- Max → Maxens Vater (“Max’s father”)
- Klaus → Klausens Mutter (“Klaus’s mother”)
- (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia
- Claudia → Claudiens Tochter (“Claudia’s daughter”)
- Maria → Mariens Sohn (“Mary’s son”)
Usage notes edit
- In contemporary usage the genitive is usually left unchanged after sibilants, and indicated with an apostrophe in writing: Max’ Vater. Such unchanged genitives, in turn, are often avoided and paraphrased: der Vater von Max (colloquially: vom Max).
- The genitive is formed with -s after -ia: Claudias, Marias. Only the form Mariens remains current, but it is restricted to the Virgin Mary.
Etymology 3 edit
Suffix edit
-ens
- forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers
Usage notes edit
- Adverbs in -ens often have an absolute superlative sense, meaning “at most, maximally” or “very much, exceedingly”. These forms are widely lexicalized, however. That is to say that they cannot be formed freely, except in poetic or humorous language.
References edit
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ens
- A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix.
Usage notes edit
- Variants:
- -áns is added to back-vowel words
- -ens is added to front-vowel words
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Rebracketing of forms such as monēns (stem monē- + suffix -ns) or legēns (stem leg- + thematic vowel -e- + -ns).
Suffix edit
-ēns
- ending of the present active participle of second and third conjugation verbs; see -ns
Declension edit
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | -ēns | -entēs | -entia | ||
Genitive | -entis | -entium | |||
Dative | -entī | -entibus | |||
Accusative | -entem | -ēns | -entēs -entīs |
-entia | |
Ablative | -ente -entī1 |
-entibus | |||
Vocative | -ēns | -entēs | -entia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants edit
- Norwegian Bokmål: -ent
Latvian edit
Suffix edit
-ens
- added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of -enis