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| -genic, producing or generating something |
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| -lysis, dissolution, decomposition |
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| his, her, its (third-person singular possessive suffix denoting singular possession) |
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The first person and second-person singular imperfect indicative form of a verb.
Je regardais la télé pendant que tu parlais au téléphone.
I was watching the telly when you were talking on the phone. |
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| Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X". |
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Forming masculine nouns from verbs and nouns, having the sense of ‘tool, object for a specific purpose’.
éventer (“to ventilate”) --> éventail (“fan”) |
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Suffix used to form demonyms
Jamaïcain, Mexicain. |
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| -ish (used to indicate approximation when added to a number) |
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| Forming feminine nouns of action from verbs, the female -tion |
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| (suffix used to form nouns) |
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-ing; suffix denoting the present participle of a verb
jouer (to play) → jouant (playing) |
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| -archy, a societal system of rule |
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-Used primarily to form pejoratives, diminutives, and nouns representing or belonging to a particular class or sort.
the french form of of "drunk-ard" |
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| -ation, noun form of verb |
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| -at usually denotes an action or a result of an action, like in assassinat (“assassination”) |
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| -agent noun, such as investigat-or |
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| indicates a grower or a keep of something, usually animal or plant related |
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| Used to form the feminine of adjectives. |
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| Forming diminutive masculine nouns, especially with the sense ‘young animal’. |
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Forming feminine nouns having the sense of ‘something contained by’ (the root word).
bras (“arm”) --> brassée (“armful”)
an (“year”) --> année (“(duration of) a year”) |
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| To make an adjectival form of a noun; -al |
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1.denoting a shop selling a certain product.
bijouterie
2.denoting an organization specializing in a given field
huilerie
3.denoting nouns describing qualities or properties
tricherie |
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| used to form nouns describing the condition of being something (-ness, -ity, etc.) |
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| Suffix indicating diminution or affection. |
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-ous, -y
pluviosus → pluvieux "rainy"
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| Added to a noun to form a verb. |
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| something written, drawn, or otherwise recorded. |
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| -ible, adjective form of a verb |
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| (used to form adjectives from nouns) -ic |
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Suffix used to form adjectives. Compare with -ial in English.
Suffix used to form some nouns, especially when the noun was originally an adjective. |
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| -th, the suffix denoting an ordinal number |
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| Denotes where something or someone is from; -ian; for example Paris → parisien (“from Paris”) |
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| (used to form the names of trees bearing a particular type of fruit) tree |
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| (used to form the names of jobs) |
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| Used to form the names of ships |
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| -ive; used in forming adjectives denoting characteristics or qualities. |
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| use to form noun to refer to someone or something that realise an action. |
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| suffix used to form nouns |
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