-inec
See also: înec
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɪnɛt͡s]
- Rhymes: -ɪnɛts
Suffix
-inec m inan
- Used to create nouns from nouns.
- Resulting term often has the meaning of a building intended to shelter animals or people denoted in the base word.
- pes (“dog”) + -inec → psinec (“kennel”)
- Resulting term often has the meaning of an excrement produced by the animal denoted in the base word.
- kobyla (“mare”) + -inec → kobylinec (“mare's excrement”)
- Resulting term often has the meaning of a building intended to shelter animals or people denoted in the base word.
- May create a noun from a pronoun or adjective.
- náš (“our”) + -inec → našinec (“one of us, homeboy”)
- cizí (“strange, foreign”) + -inec → cizinec (“stranger, foreigner”)
Usage notes
The word našinec is probably the only case of this suffix added to a pronoun.
Declension
Declension of -inec
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -inec | -ince |
| genitive | -ince | -inců |
| dative | -inci | -inců |
| accusative | -inec | -ince |
| vocative | -inci | -ince |
| locative | -inci | -incích |
| instrumental | -incem | -inci |
Derived terms
Czech terms suffixed with -inec
Further reading
- Z dopisů jazykové poradně, Naše řeč, volume 89 (2006)
- -inec in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017