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-dus

-dus

See also: dus, dús, duś, dûs, duș, duş, and D'us

Estonian

Suffix

-dus (genitive -duse, partitive -dust)

  1. Derives nouns from words generally ending with vowels
    vaba "free" → vabadus "freedom"
    sala "secretly" → saladus "secret"
    kare "rough" → karedus "roughness"
    harima "to educate" → haridus "education"
    isa "father" → isadus "paternity"

Declension

Derived terms

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