-chen

Etymology
From and. Compare 🇨🇬,.

Usage notes

 * As with the agentive particles in other Mongolic languages, forms built using this suffix can also be used to derive names of occupations.
 * The primary usage is to form relative clauses which denote an ongoing event relative to the rest of the sentence.

Etymology
From, , from , , from.

Native to the Central German dialects, -chen has widely replaced the southern-based in standard usage. Cognate with 🇨🇬, as well as 🇨🇬 and. More at.

Pronunciation

 * The use of a syllabic nasal is less common in this ending than otherwise. The vowel tends to be preserved and often fronted, yielding.
 * The use of a syllabic nasal is less common in this ending than otherwise. The vowel tends to be preserved and often fronted, yielding.

Usage notes

 * Words ending in the suffix -chen are always neuter, whatever the gender of the basic word.
 * Generally, with few exceptions, diminutives with -chen have an umlauted stem vowel. Double vowels must be singled as the combinations ää and öö are not permitted in modern German orthography (e.g. from,  from ).
 * Word-final -e and -en are lost before the diminutive ending: from,  from.
 * Words ending in -ch (and some others) use the double suffix, e.g. from . However, the suffix  is more common for these words in writing.
 * The plural diminutive is generally unchanged, but some words with a plural in may carry this ending over to the plural diminutive, yielding . This is standard in  → ; most other forms (like, etc.) are slightly informal or dated.

Etymology
From, , a double diminutive, from , +.

Usage notes

 * Luxembourgish diminutives, unlike German, keep the gender of the basic word. With few exceptions, diminutives exhibit umlaut if possible. Stems ending in -k, -g, -ch, -ng use the extended suffix . Some diminutives are irregular: →.
 * When the syllable immediately before -chen is stressed, the plural is of the form -ercher, otherwise -cher: →, but  → . Nouns with an irregular plural often exhibit a similar irregularity in the plural diminutive:  →  and analogously  →.

Etymology
From, , , from , , equivalent to.