See also: ens, ENS, Ens., -eņš, and -ēns

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-ens

  1. masculine plural of
  2. masculine plural of

German edit

Etymology 1 edit

Suffix edit

-ens

  1. 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

  1. (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant
    MaxMaxens Vater (“Max’s father”)
    KlausKlausens Mutter (“Klaus’s mother”)
  2. (dated) genitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia
    ClaudiaClaudiens Tochter (“Claudia’s daughter”)
    MariaMariens 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

  1. forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers
    der erste (the first)erstens (firstly)
    am meisten (most)meistens (mostly)
    am besten (best)bestens (very well; best)
    am frühesten (earliest)frühestens (at the earliest)
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.

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Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

-ens

  1. A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix.
    ágens (agent)
    dekadens (decadent)

Usage notes edit

  • Variants:
    -áns is added to back-vowel words
    -ens is added to front-vowel words

Derived terms edit

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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

  1. 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

  1. added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of -enis

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit