-falls

falls Falls fälls German Etymology Suffixation of the conjunction de falls, this presumably from the genitive of de Fall. Pronunciation de /fals/ Suffix de suffix adverb-forming suffixes used to form adverbs from adjectives https://dict.leo.org/grammatik/deutsch/Wortbildungsregeln/Derivation/To-Adv/Suffixe/falls.xml?lang=en#id=2.1.4.6.3 de gleich similar gleichfalls similarly de besten best bestenfalls at best de notwendig necessary notwendigenfalls if necessary used to form adverbs from pronouns de kein no keinesfalls in no case de ander other anderenfalls alternatively Usage notes This suffix forms adverbs that imply a particular condition or circumstance, similarly to phrases like "in case of," "if," or "in the event of" in English, and it adds a hypothetical or conditional sense to words. The adverbs are formed either from an adjective or from a pronoun. Since the suffix comes from a genitive formation, adjectives are often accompanied by an interfix de -en, which originally corresponds to the strong masculine singular declension of the adjective itself. For the same reason, some pronouns could present the interfix de -es, as in de keinesfalls. Derived terms de References