-b
See also: Appendix:Variations of "b"
Hungarian
Suffix
-b
- (comparative suffix, somewhat archaic) -er, more
- idős (“old”) → idősb (“older”)
Usage notes
- (comparative suffix) Harmonic variants:
- -b is added to some words ending in a consonant, a somewhat archaic variant
- idős (“old”) → idősb (“older”) (the modern comparative is idősebb)
- -bb is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- drága (“expensive”) → drágább (“more expensive”)
- fekete (“black”) → feketébb (“blacker”)
- -abb is added to most back vowel words ending in a consonant
- fiatal (“young”) → fiatalabb (“younger”)
- -obb is added to some back vowel words ending in a consonant
- nagy (“big”) → nagyobb (“bigger”)
- -ebb is added to front vowel words ending in a consonant
- öreg (“old”) → öregebb (“older”)
- -b is added to some words ending in a consonant, a somewhat archaic variant
Derived terms
- Category:Hungarian comparative adjectives
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
Veps
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *-pi.
Suffix
-b
- Suffix of the third-person singular.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Finnic *-pa.
Suffix
-b
- (no longer productive) -ing; forms a secondary present active participle of a few verbs.
Inflection
| Inflection of -b | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | -b | ||
| genitive sing. | -ban | ||
| partitive sing. | -bad | ||
| partitive plur. | -bid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -b | -bad | |
| accusative | -ban | -bad | |
| genitive | -ban | -biden | |
| partitive | -bad | -bid | |
| essive-instructive | -ban | -bin | |
| translative | -baks | -bikš | |
| inessive | -bas | -biš | |
| elative | -baspäi | -bišpäi | |
| illative | ? | -bihe | |
| adessive | -bal | -bil | |
| ablative | -balpäi | -bilpäi | |
| allative | -bale | -bile | |
| abessive | -bata | -bita | |
| comitative | -banke | -bidenke | |
| prolative | -badme | -bidme | |
| approximative I | -banno | -bidenno | |
| approximative II | -bannoks | -bidennoks | |
| egressive | -bannopäi | -bidennopäi | |
| terminative I | ? | -bihesai | |
| terminative II | -balesai | -bilesai | |
| terminative III | -bassai | — | |
| additive I | ? | -bihepäi | |
| additive II | -balepäi | -bilepäi | |
Derived terms
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- -dab