-ens
See also: ens, ENS, Ens., and -ēns
Catalan
Suffix
-ens
- masculine plural of -è
- masculine plural of -é
German
Suffix
-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”)
Suffix
-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
- 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.
Suffix
-ens
- 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
- 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
- canoo.net: Personennamen
- duden.de: Beugung von Personennamen, Ehrenrettung für Großmutters Apfelkuchen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɛnʃ]
Suffix
-ens
- A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix.
- ágens (“agent”)
- dekadens (“decadent”)
Usage notes
- Harmonic variants:
- -áns added to back vowel words
- -ens added to front vowel words
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Hungarian_nouns_suffixed_with_-ens' title='Category:Hungarian nouns suffixed with -ens'>Hungarian nouns suffixed with -ens</a>
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Hungarian_adjectives_suffixed_with_-ens' title='Category:Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -ens'>Hungarian adjectives suffixed with -ens</a>
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
References
- Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006
Latin
Etymology
Surface analysis of forms such as monēns (stem monē- + suffix -ns) or legēns (stem leg- + thematic vowel -e- + -ns).
Suffix
-ēns
- Ending of the present active participle of second and third conjugation verbs; see -ns.
Declension
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -ēns | -ēns | -entēs | -entia | |
| Genitive | -entis | -entis | -entium | -entium | |
| Dative | -entī | -entī | -entibus | -entibus | |
| Accusative | -entem | -ēns | -entēs, -entīs | -entia | |
| Ablative | -ente, -entī1 | -ente, -entī1 | -entibus | -entibus | |
| Vocative | -ēns | -ēns | -entēs | -entia | |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Latvian
Suffix
-ens
- Added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of -enis.
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Latvian_words_suffixed_with_-ens' title='Category:Latvian words suffixed with -ens'>Latvian words suffixed with -ens</a>
Related terms
- -enis
- -ene
- -ēns