-nia

-nia

See also: nia, NIA, nía, nĩa, niā, nią, and ni'a

Hungarian

Etymology

-ni (infinitive suffix) +‎ -a (third-person singular personal suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nijɒ]

Suffix

-nia

1. Used to form the third-person singular and the second-person singular formal of an infinitive.

   tanulni (“to study”) → Tanulnia kell. (“He/she has to study. / You (formal) have to study.”)

Usage notes

• The conjugated infinitive denotes action connected to the person. The non-conjugated infinitive has a general meaning.

  Itt nem szabad dohányoznia. (“S/he is not allowed to smoke here. (third person)”)

  Itt nem szabad dohányozni. (“Smoking is not allowed here. (general)”)

• With words like “important, necessary” etc., it is expressed in English as “for him/her to…”.

  Fontos eljönnie. (“It is important for him/her to come here. or It is important that s/he come here.”)

• Variants:

  -nia is added to back-vowel words that form their infinitive with -ni

  rohanni (“to run”) → rohannia kell (“he/she has to run”)

  -nie is added to front-vowel words that form their infinitive with -ni

  nevetni (“to laugh”) → nevetnie kell (“he/she has to laugh”)

  főzni (“to cook”) → főznie kell (“he/she has to cook”)

  -ania is added to back-vowel words that form their infinitive with -ani

  tanítani (“to teach”) → tanítania kell (“he/she has to teach”)

  -enie is added to front-vowel words that form their infinitive with -eni

  veszíteni (“to lose”) → súlyt kell veszítenie (“he/she has to lose weight”)

See also

• Category:Hungarian infinitive forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

References

1. -nia in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

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Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьňà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲa/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: nia

Suffix

-nia f

1. forms feminine nouns, often but not always denoting places

   ‎głos + ‎-nia → ‎głośnia

Declension

Declension of -nia

	singular	plural
nominative	-nia	-nie
genitive	-nii	-nii/-nij (archaic)
dative	-nii	-niom
accusative	-nię	-nie
instrumental	-nią	-niami
locative	-nii	-niach
vocative	-nio	-nie

Derived terms

Polish terms suffixed with -nia

Further reading

• -nia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• -nia in Polish dictionaries at PWN