-ri

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ri"

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse -ari (“suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs”), from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, from Latin -ārius.

Suffix

-ri

1. Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs.

   kartta (“map”) → kartturi (“navigator”)

   vaate (“garment”) → vaatturi (“tailor”)

   duunata (“to work”) → duunari (“worker”)

   puutarha (“garden”) → puutarhuri (“gardener”)

   urut (“organ”) → urkuri (“organist”)

   saha (“saw”) → sahuri (“sawmill operator”)

   rokki (“rock music”) → rokkari (“rocker”)

2. (slang) Used to create terms meaning "supporter of something"

   kommunisti (“communist”) → kommari

   sosiaalidemokraatti (“social democrat”) → demari

Declension

Inflection of -ri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		-ri	-rit
genitive		-rin	-rien -reiden -reitten
partitive		-ria	-reita -reja
illative		-riin	-reihin
		singular	plural
nominative		-ri	-rit
accusative	nom.	-ri	-rit
	gen.	-rin
genitive		-rin	-rien -reiden -reitten
partitive		-ria	-reita -reja
inessive		-rissa	-reissa
elative		-rista	-reista
illative		-riin	-reihin
adessive		-rilla	-reilla
ablative		-rilta	-reilta
allative		-rille	-reille
essive		-rina	-reina
translative		-riksi	-reiksi
instructive		—	-rein
abessive		-ritta	-reitta
comitative		—	-reineen

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Igbo

Suffix

-ri

1. Owerri and Umuahia standard spelling of -li.

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Jamamadí

Suffix

-ri m (feminine -ro)

1. (evidential) identifies an action as certain and having occurred in the near past

References

• 2008 (originally 1976), Robert Campbell, Verification in Jamamadi Quotations, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, page 4.

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Japanese

Romanization

-ri

1. Rōmaji transcription of り

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Purepecha

Suffix

-ri

1. genitive suffix

References

• Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias II (1998), section on P'urhépecha

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Quechua

Suffix

-ri

1. Optionally used to mark the topic of a question. Gives a sense of courtesy.

   Karlusri maypim kachkan?

   And where is Carlos?

   Maypitaq tiyankiri?

   And where do you live?

Descendants

• Spanish: -ri (Bolivia)

See also

• -qa