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-ничать
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Russian
Etymology
Extracted from words such as ru безде́льничать and ru у́мничать. ru -ник -ать.
Pronunciation
-ничать
Suffix
ru suffix -ничать verb-forming suffixes
Productive verbal suffix used to indicate showing a certain behaviour
ru капри́з caprice капри́зничать to be capricious
ru коке́тка coquette, a flirt коке́тничать to flirt, to show off
ru нерв nerve не́рвничать to be nervous
Usage notes
The verbs are typically imperfective when unprefixed and are intransitive.
Conjugation
imperfective
impf-intr 1a -ничать
perfective
pf-intr 1a -ничать
Derived terms
ru