-tion

Alternative forms

 * (as in )
 * (as in )
 * (as in )

Etymology
From, borrowing from , , borrowed from the stem of. The became  in Modern English under the influence of the 🇨🇬 and original Latin spellings.

Related terms

 * /-ization
 * /-ization
 * /-ization

Translations

 * Afrikaans: -sie
 * Armenian: -ություն, -ցիա
 * Azerbaijani: -siya, -ţiya, -mə, -ləşmə
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: -цыя
 * Bulgarian: -ция
 * Catalan: (always forms a feminine noun)
 * Crimean Tatar: -tsiya
 * Czech: -ce
 * Danish: -tion
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: -tsioon
 * Faroese: -sjón
 * Finnish:, -tio
 * French:
 * Gagauz: -ţiya
 * Galician:, -ção, -çom
 * Georgian: -ცია
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole: -syon
 * Hebrew: -ציה
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: -si
 * Italian: -zione (unless previous letter was "s", when "t" remains as is, like in "digestione", "questione", etc.)
 * Japanese: -化
 * Kazakh: -ция
 * Khmer:
 * Kyrgyz: -ция
 * Ladino: -syon
 * Lai: -nak, -cio
 * Latin: -tiō
 * Latvian: -cija
 * Lithuanian: -cija
 * Macedonian: -ција
 * Malay: -si, -syen, -sen, peng--an, per--an
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: -cion
 * Old English: -ing
 * Polish: -cja
 * Portuguese: (unless previous letter was "s", when "t" remains as is, like in "digestão", "questão", etc.)
 * Romanian: -ție, -țiune (unless previous letter was "s", when "t" remains as is, like in "digestie", "chestiune", etc.), -ciune
 * Romansch: -ziun, -schun
 * Russian: -ция
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: -ција
 * Latin: -cija
 * Slovak: -cia
 * Slovene: -cija
 * Spanish: (unless previous letter was "s", when "t" remains as is, like in "digestión", "cuestión", etc.); -xión (for few specific cases)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: -siyon
 * Tajik: -тсия
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: -syon
 * Turkmen: -siýa
 * Ukrainian: -ння, -ція
 * Uzbek: -tsiya
 * West Frisian: -sje
 * Yiddish:

Suffix

 * 1) ; making nouns.

Etymology
Borrowed as a learned form from Latin suffix or, ending of the singular ablative or accusative of those nouns ending with  (part of the Latin third declension). The original inherited form of the suffix, /-son (or from -ātionem), is today less common but can be found in words such as, , , , , , etc.

Pronunciation

 * (if previous letter is "s", as in "", "", "", etc.)
 * (if previous letter is "s", as in "", "", "", etc.)

Pronunciation

 * The pronunciation with a syllabic is virtually obsolete, thus one may simply transcribe.
 * The pronunciation with a syllabic is virtually obsolete, thus one may simply transcribe.

Suffix

 * 1) -tion

Suffix

 * 1) ; making nouns. See also,  and.