-ens

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-ens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of -en

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-ens

1. plural of -en

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-ens

1. plural of -en

• IPA ^(key): (Northern ) [ˈe̞ns]
• IPA ^(key): (Balearic , Central , Valencia , Northwestern ) [ˈɛns]
• Rhymes: -ɛns
• Hyphenation: -ens

-ens

1. masculine plural of -è
2. masculine plural of -é

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-ens

1. plural suffix for family names that end in a sibilant consonant

   Schmitz → (die) Schmitzens ("the Schmitzes, "the Schmitz family")

   Pütz → (die) Pützens ("the Pützes, "the Pütz family")

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-ens

1. (dated ) genitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant

   Max → Maxens Vater ("Max’s father")

   Klaus → Klausens Mutter ("Klaus’s mother")

2. (dated ) genitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia

   Claudia → Claudiens Tochter ("Claudia’s daughter")

   Maria → Mariens Sohn ("Mary’s son")

• In contemporary usage the genitive is usually left unchanged after sibilants, and indicated with an apostrophe in writing: Max’ Vater. Such unchanged genitives, in turn, are often avoided and paraphrased: der Vater von Max (colloquially: vom Max).
• The genitive is formed with -s after -ia: Claudias, Marias. Only the form Mariens remains current, but it is restricted to the Virgin Mary.

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-ens

1. forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers

   der erste ("the first") → erstens ("firstly")

   am meisten ("most") → meistens ("mostly")

   am besten ("best") → bestens ("very well; best")

   am frühesten ("earliest") → frühestens ("at the earliest")

• Adverbs in -ens often have an absolute superlative sense, meaning "at most, maximally" or "very much, exceedingly". These forms are widely lexicalized, however. That is to say that they cannot be formed freely, except in poetic or humorous language.

• duden.de: Beugung von Personennamen, Ehrenrettung für Großmutters Apfelkuchen

Learned borrowing from Latin -ēns (present active participle suffix).

• IPA ^(key): [ɛnʃ]
• Rhymes: -ɛnʃ
• Hyphenation: -ens

-ens

1. A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix.

   ágens ("agent")

   dekadens ("decadent")

• Variants:

  -áns is added to back-vowel words

  -ens is added to front-vowel words

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006

Rebracketing of forms such as monēns (stem monē- + suffix -ns ) or legēns (stem leg- + thematic vowel -e- + -ns ).

-ēns (genitive -entis ); third-declension participle

1. ending of the present active participle of second and third conjugation verbs; see -ns

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• Catalan: -ent
• French: -ant , → -ent
• Italian: -ente
• Portuguese: -ente
• Spanish: -iente , -ente
• → English: -ent
• → Norwegian Bokmål: -ent

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-ens

1. added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of -enis

• -enis
• -ene
• -ēns

Borrowed from English -ence , from Middle English -ence , from Old French -ence , from Latin -entia .

• IPA ^(key): [-əns]
• Hyphenation: -ens

-ens (Jawi spelling ـنس )

1. (no longer productive ) -ence

   valens ― valence

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