-ik

Usage notes

 * Often used to form the plurals of words (especially nouns denoting people who have particular occupations or activities) which end in the consonant d or t (which causes the d or t to mutate into j: nodabônkad, "baker" → nodabônkajik, "bakers"); only rarely used to form the plurals of words ending in other letters (nodkwaag, notkwahag, "pilot" → nodkwaagik, notkwahagik, "pilots").
 * See the usage notes at -ak.

Suffix

 * 1) [we] are
 * 1) [we] are

Suffix

 * , -ly
 * , -ly
 * , -ly

Etymology
From.

Etymology
and.

Etymology 1
Adjective suffix.

Etymology 2
Possessive suffix.

Suffix

 * 1) their ……-s third-person plural; the pronoun (!) being optional for emphasis
 * 2)  your ……-s second-person plural, grammatically resembling the third person plural
 * →, alternatively: (!)
 * →, alternatively: (!)
 * 1)  your ……-s second-person plural, grammatically resembling the third person plural
 * →, alternatively: (!)
 * →, alternatively: (!)

Etymology 3
Personal suffix.

Suffix

 * 1)   The ending of a large group of passive/reflexive verbs in indefinite third-person singular present tense, their dictionary form.
 * 2)   Used to form the definite third-person plural present indicative of (front-vowel) verbs.
 * [from, indicating a definite object, here required by ]
 * [from, indicating a definite object, here required by ]
 * [from, indicating a definite object, here required by ]

Usage notes
The above two senses are usually not difficult to distinguish as long as one knows whether the lemma of the verb ends in. If it does, it is usually not a transitive verb (since most verbs have a passive or reflexive meaning) so it will be probably an (indefinite) singular. On the other hand, if the lemma of the verb has no, the only option is the definite plural.

is one of the few verbs that are transitive. In such a case, one needs to rely on the definiteness of the object. For more details, see its.


 * See harmonic variants in the table below.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , formed with the i-stem suffix and the adjectival suffix.

Usage notes
The suffix often appears on loaned words from English. Many words with this suffix have synonyms with suffix which were loaned from Dutch. However, the Dutch-loaned -is is seemingly preferred over English-loaned -ik. Never used in chemical compound sense.

Etymology 1
, from, from , from , formed with the i-stem suffix and the adjectival suffix.

Usage notes
The suffix often appears in loanwords from English. Many words with this suffix have synonyms with the suffix many of which were loaned from Dutch through Indonesian, although not all of them are (e.g. ).

Etymology 2
.

Etymology 2
From, from , from. .

Etymology
.

Etymology
, from.

Declension
(personal nouns)

(other nouns)

Etymology
.

Etymology 1
.

Etymology 2
or.

Declension

 * Declension in case of an inanimate noun according to the declension pattern :


 * Declension in case of an animate noun according to the declension pattern :

Etymology 1
From, from.

Etymology 2
From, from.

Suffix

 * 1) -ic
 * 2) -ical

Etymology
Presumably related to Finnish.