-ers

ers ERs ERS English Oxford "-er" Etymology en slangy -er<id:Oxford> 1 suffix From en -er Oxford. Suffix en informal originally school slang Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words. en breakfast brekkers en divinity divvers<t:the study of religion> Used to form mostly adjective adjectives used informal informally. Derived terms en en Oxford Suffix en suffix form en -er Anagrams en ers SRE ser. res. ESR res RSE ser Res. RES SER en Oxford University slang Afrikaans Etymology af nl -ers, a chiefly dialectal plural morpheme equivalent to standard Dutch nl -eren (whence Afrikaans af -ere). Pronunciation af af LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar--ers.wav af -ers Suffix af suffix forms the plural of three nouns, all of which denote young creatures af kalf<t:calf> kalwers<t:calves> af kind<t:child> kinders<t:children> af lam<t:lamb> lammers<t:lambs> Usage notes The colloquial plurale tantum af goeters things, stuff is only etymologically an inflection of af goed a good, whose true plural is af goedere. Two other Afrikaans nouns are backformations from plurals originally using the suffix -ers: af eier (“egg”, from Dutch nl ei) and af hoender (“chicken”, from Dutch nl hoen). af inflectional suffixes Catalan Pronunciation é(r)s ca es<a:Central,Balearic> eɾs<a:Valencia> 1 ca -ers Suffix ca suffix form ca -er p French Pronunciation fr ɛʁ 1 fr -ers Suffix fr suffix form fr -er German Pronunciation de De--ers.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Suffix de suffix form de -er gen s