Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch -eren. Compare also the more native Afrikaans -ers.

Suffix

-ere

1. forms the plurals of six nouns

   been ‎(“leg; bone”) — beendere (“bones”)

   gelid ‎(“rank”) — geledere (“ranks”)

   gemoed ‎(“mind”) — gemoedere (“minds”)

   goed ‎(“good”) — goedere (“goods”)

   lied ‎(“song; hymn”) — liedere (“hymns”)

   volk ‎(“people”) — volkere (“peoples”)

Usage notes

• In most of the above cases, either the word as such or the plural belongs to a more literary register.
• The noun blaar ‎(“leaf”) is a backformation from a plural originally using this suffix (from Dutch blad > bladeren > blaren).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin -ere (second and third conjugations).

Suffix

-ere

1. Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of many Italian verbs.

Usage notes

• See ricevere as an example of a regular -ere verb.
• There are two groups of irregular -ere verbs:
  • Those in the first group have multiple irregularities (sometimes even in the infinitive), but several related verbs are conjugated in the same way
  • Those in the second group have irregular past participles and/or, in the past historic have an irregular stem in the first- and third-person singular and the third-person plural

Derived terms

See also

• -are
• -ire

Latin

Alternative forms

• -ēris

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.re/, [ˈeː.rɛ]

Suffix

-ēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of -ō

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *-āri, -ere, from Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz ‎(“masc. agent suffix”).

Suffix

-ere m

1. Forms agent nouns from verbs.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dutch: -er

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed as part of Latin, French or German verbs. Cognate to French -er, German -ieren, Swedish -era.

Suffix

-ere

1. Used in verbs derived from Latin, French or German, indicating the action of doing the first part of the word; such as revolusjonere ‎(“to revolutionise”), from revolusjon ‎(“revolution”).

References

• “-ere” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

As for Bokmål above.

Alternative forms

• -era

Suffix

-ere

1. Usage as for Bokmål above.

References

• “-ere” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Suffix

-ere m

1. masculine agent suffix, originally applied only to nouns

   fuglere ‎(“fowler”), from fugol ‎(“fowl, bird”)

Declension

Descendants

• English: -er

Old French

Alternative forms

• -erre
• -iere
• -ierre

Suffix

-ere

1. Nominative singular of -or (agent noun suffix)

   Le chanteor → li chantere