-me
See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"
French edit
Suffix edit
-me (plural -mes)
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The neologists formed new words with it after artificially deducing it from words ending in -ma/-me. [1]
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-me
Usage notes edit
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -ma is added to back-vowel words
- -me is added to front-vowel words
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | -me | -mék |
accusative | -mét | -méket |
dative | -mének | -méknek |
instrumental | -mével | -mékkel |
causal-final | -méért | -mékért |
translative | -mévé | -mékké |
terminative | -méig | -mékig |
essive-formal | -meként | -mékként |
essive-modal | -méül | -mékül |
inessive | -mében | -mékben |
superessive | -mén | -méken |
adessive | -ménél | -méknél |
illative | -mébe | -mékbe |
sublative | -mére | -mékre |
allative | -méhez | -mékhez |
elative | -méből | -mékből |
delative | -méről | -mékről |
ablative | -métől | -méktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
-méé | -méké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
-mééi | -mékéi |
Possessive forms of -me | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | -mém | -méim |
2nd person sing. | -méd | -méid |
3rd person sing. | -méje | -méi |
1st person plural | -ménk | -méink |
2nd person plural | -métek | -méitek |
3rd person plural | -méjük | -méik |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ -me in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
-me
Latvian edit
Alternative forms edit
Suffix edit
-me
- Added to adjectives (sometimes to nouns) to form abstract nouns, especially those referring to the state or property that corresponds to the original adjective (like, e.g., Eng. -ity).
Derived terms edit
Murui Huitoto edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Classifier edit
-me
- Classifier with an uncertain meaning.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Classifier edit
-me
- Repeater of ɨme
Derived terms edit
Tetelcingo Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh, Morelos Nahuatl -mej.
Suffix edit
-me
- Used to form the plural of nouns.
Tocharian B edit
Pronoun edit
-me
- enclitic pronoun referring to first, second, or third persons plural
Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمه, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-me.
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
preceding vowel | |
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A / I / O / U | E / İ / Ö / Ü |
-ma | -me |
-me
- negates meaning of the verb. not, don't
- Bana ödevini yapmayı unuttuğunu söyleme!
- Don't tell me that you forgot to do your homework!
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمه, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-me.
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
preceding vowel | |
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A / I / O / U | E / İ / Ö / Ü |
-ma | -me |
-me
- forms irrealis verbal nouns, or non-subject participles.
- Coordinate term: -dik (realis)
- Okuldan sonra eczaneye gitmeyi unuttum.
- I forgot to go to the pharmacy after school (i.e. going to the pharmacy did not happen).
Derived terms edit
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-me
- Serves as an attributivizer to allow verbs nominalized with -tojo to function as a predicate in a subordinate clause of purpose with the meaning ‘in order to X’, ‘for X-ing’.
- Synonym: -je
Usage notes edit
This suffix causes syllable reduction so that -tojo becomes -to' and the combined suffix is -to'me. In the Caura River (Ye’kwana) dialect studied by Cáceres this suffix was only ever found in use in combination with -tojo.
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-me”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 145–146