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-ri
-ri
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ri"
Finnish
Suffix
-ri
- Used to create names of occupations from nouns or verbs.
- kartta (“map”) → kartturi (“navigator”)
- vaate (“garment”) → vaatturi (“tailor”)
- duunata (“to work”) → duunari (“worker”)
- puutarha (“garden”) → puutarhuri (“gardener”)
- urut (“organ”) → urkuri (“organist”)
- saha (“saw”) → sahuri (“sawmill operator”)
- rokki (“rock music”) → rokkari (“rocker”)
- (slang) Used to create terms meaning "supporter of something"
- kommunisti (“communist”) → kommari
- sosiaalidemokraatti (“social democrat”) → demari
Declension
| Inflection of -ri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | -ri | -rit | |
| genitive | -rin | -rien -reiden -reitten |
|
| partitive | -ria | -reita -reja |
|
| illative | -riin | -reihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | -ri | -rit | |
| accusative | nom. | -ri | -rit |
| gen. | -rin | ||
| genitive | -rin | -rien -reiden -reitten |
|
| partitive | -ria | -reita -reja |
|
| inessive | -rissa | -reissa | |
| elative | -rista | -reista | |
| illative | -riin | -reihin | |
| adessive | -rilla | -reilla | |
| ablative | -rilta | -reilta | |
| allative | -rille | -reille | |
| essive | -rina | -reina | |
| translative | -riksi | -reiksi | |
| instructive | — | -rein | |
| abessive | -ritta | -reitta | |
| comitative | — | -reineen | |
Jamamadí
Suffix
-ri m (feminine -ro)
- (evidential) identifies an action as certain and having occurred in the near past
References
- 2008 (originally 1976), Robert Campbell, Verification in Jamamadi Quotations, Associação Internacional de Linguística SIL - Brasil, page 4.
Purepecha
Suffix
-ri
- genitive suffix
References
- Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias II (1998), section on P'urhépecha