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ant-/mant-/vant-stems; vāṅs-stems; When the nominal endings are being affixed to a noun of each class, they may undergo, in some cases, some changes, including being entirely replaced by other forms. This happens most profusely in the a-stem class. However, for reasons noted below, grammars both traditional and modern tend to start with this ...
-ant (usually changes verbs into nouns, often referring to a human agent)-ess (usually class-maintaining, with the word class remaining a noun)-ful (usually changes nouns into adjectives)-fy (usually changes nouns into verbs)-hood (usually class-maintaining, with the word class remaining a noun)-ise/-ize (usually changes nouns into verbs)
Noun forms and gender [1] [2] [note 2] Masculine endings [Nf 1] Masculine gender indications -ant, -ast, -ich, -ig, -ismus, -ling, -or, -us: The majority of nouns which come from strong verbs without a suffix (but often with a vowel change). [Nf 2] 60% of nouns in -el and -er, as well as 80% of those in -en, [Nf 3] are masculine. [Nf 4] 67% of ...
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
Masculine names or nouns may be turned into diminutives with the ending -ot, -on, or -ou (MF -eau), but sometimes, for phonetic reasons, an additional consonant is added (e.g. -on becomes -ton, -ou becomes -nou, etc.): Jeannot (Jonny), from Jean (John); Pierrot (Petey) from Pierre (Peter); chiot (puppy), from chien (dog); fiston (sonny or sonny ...
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Masculine, feminine and neuter nouns often have their own special nominative singular endings. For instance, many masculine nouns end in -or (amor, amōris, 'love'). Many feminine nouns end in -īx (phoenīx, phoenīcis, 'phoenix'), and many neuter nouns end in -us with an r stem in the oblique cases (onus, oneris 'burden'; tempus, temporis ...