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-яние
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Russian
Alternative forms
ru -ание -анье
Pronunciation
-я́ние n y
-яние n y
Suffix
ru suffix -я́ние -яние
-tion, -ence, -ance, -ity, etc. suffix used to form abstract nouns from verbs; added especially to verbs ending in ru -ять; variant of ru -ание
ru та́ять to thaw та́яние thawing
ru возлия́ть to drink wine as a libation -я́ние возлия́ние libation; drinking bout
ru валя́ть to roll on a surface -я́ние валя́ние rolling on a surface; fulling (cloth)
Usage notes
This is a variant of ru -ание, used mostly with verbs in ru -ять, and it has the same properties (e.g. the stress is usually not drawn onto the suffix, unlike for ru -е́ние).
Declension
-я́ние or -яние
Derived terms
ru
Related terms
ru -е́ние, ru -е́нье