Curripaco

Suffix

-na

1. third person plural patient marker

Reference

• Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, ISBN 0199238383), page 398

Estonian

Suffix

-na

1. Forms the essive case.

Usage notes

• The suffix is appended to the genitive stem or an appropriate plural stem.

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *-na, from the Proto-Uralic locative case ending *-na.

Suffix

-na ‎(front vowel harmony variant -nä)

1. Forms the essive case.

   • kaunis beautiful (word includes back vowel, a) -> + -na = kauniina

   eräänä kauniina aamuna

   on a beautiful morning

   Ennen pidit minua kauniina.

   In the past you thought I was beautiful. (literally: In the past you held me as beautiful.)

Usage notes

• The suffix is appended to the same stem as the illative suffixes, and also the partitive singular often uses the same stem.

Etymology 2

Suffix

-na ‎(front vowel harmony variant -nä)

1. Forms action nouns from certain verbs whose first infinitive ends in -sta.

   kutina ‎(“itching”), from kutista ‎(“to itch”)

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na/

Suffix

-na

1. a locative suffix

   hama ‎(“3rd person masculine singular proximal pronoun”) → hamana ‎(“here”)

   bee ‎(“3rd person feminine plural given pronoun”) → beena ‎(“there”)

   himiggê ‎(“3rd person masculine singular invisible pronoun”) → himiggêna ‎(“in/behind there”)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɒ]

Suffix

-na

1. (personal suffix) Used to form the third-person singular present tense of verbs (conditional mood, indefinite conjugation).

   olvas ‎(“to read”) → olvasna ‎(“he/she would read”)

Usage notes

• (personal suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -na is added to most back vowel verbs

  vár ‎(“to wait”) → várna ‎(“he/she would wait”)

  -ne is added to most front vowel verbs

  kér ‎(“to ask”) → kérne ‎(“he/she would ask”)

  -ana is added to back vowel verbs ending in two consonants or in a long vowel + t (exceptions áll, száll, varr, forr, lát)

  mond ‎(“to say something”) → mondana ‎(“he/she would say something”)

  tanít ‎(“to teach”) → tanítana ‎(“he/she would teach”)

  -ene is added to front vowel verbs ending in two consonants or in a long vowel + t

  fest ‎(“to paint”) → festene ‎(“he/she would paint”)

  segít ‎(“to help”) → segítene ‎(“he/she would help”)

See also

• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nˠə/

Suffix

-na

1. Alternative form of -ne (used after velarized consonants and back vowels)

Maori

Suffix

-na

1. Used in contractions with particles of possession to mean him/her/it

See also

Quechua

Not to be confused with -ña

Suffix

-na

1. Future perfect participle.

   llamk'ay ‎(“to work”) → llamk'ana ‎(“tool, work to be done”)

   mikhuy ‎(“to eat”) → mikhuna ‎(“food, meal”)

See also

• -spa
• -sqa

Scots

Alternative forms

• -nae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-nə/, /-nɪ/

Suffix

-na

1. not

   didna - did not

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse na, from Proto-Germanic *-naną.

Suffix

-na

1. Marker of definiteness on nouns in the plural (except for those of the fourth and fifth declensions).

   stolar (from stol (chair)); stolarna, chairs; the chairs

2. -en; Used with some adjectives to form incoative verbs

   trött; tröttna, tired; become tired.

Usage notes

Incoative verb

The suffix -na may be analysed as two morphemes (-n (incoative verb stem) + -a (infinitive)). Traditionally the a's near the ends of the Swedish first declension verb forms have been regarded as part of the suffixes, but nowadays it is more common to see it described as part of the stems of these verbs, since all endings not beginning with an a are extinct or considered heavily archaic.

Derived terms

Taos

Suffix

-na

1. Singular number inflection. (See also: -ną, -nemą, -ne.)

Volapük

Suffix

-na

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