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ens ENS Ens. -eņš -ēns English Etymology 1 Suffix en suffix form en -en#Etymology 3 s-verb-form Etymology 2 Suffix en suffix form en -en#Etymology 5 Etymology 3 Suffix en suffix form en -en#Etymology 6 Catalan Pronunciation è ca ɛns 1 ca -ens Suffix ca suffix form ca -è ca -é German Etymology 1 de plural suffix 1 Suffix de inflectional suffixes plural suffix for family names that end in a sibilant consonant Schmitz → (die) Schmitzens (“the Schmitzes, “the Schmitz family”) Pütz → (die) Pützens (“the Pützes, “the Pütz family”) Etymology 2 de genitive suffix 1 Suffix de inflectional suffixes de dated genitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant Max → Maxens Vater (“Max’s father”) Klaus → Klausens Mutter (“Klaus’s mother”) de dated genitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia Claudia → Claudiens Tochter (“Claudia’s daughter”) Maria → Mariens Sohn (“Mary’s son”) Usage notes In contemporary usage the genitive is usually left unchanged after sibilants, and indicated with an apostrophe in writing: Max’ Vater. Such unchanged genitives, in turn, are often avoided and paraphrased: der Vater von Max (colloquially: vom Max). The genitive is formed with de -s after -ia: Claudias, Marias. Only the form de Mariens remains current, but it is restricted to the Virgin Mary. Etymology 3 de adverbial suffix 1 Suffix de suffix adverb-forming suffixes forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers der de erste the first → de erstens firstly am de meisten most → de meistens mostly am de besten best → de bestens very well; best am de frühesten earliest → de frühestens at the earliest Usage notes Adverbs in -ens often have an absolute superlative sense, meaning “at most, maximally” or “very much, exceedingly”. These forms are widely lexicalized, however. That is to say that they cannot be formed freely, except in poetic or humorous language. Derived terms de References duden.de: Beugung von Personennamen, Ehrenrettung für Großmutters Apfelkuchen Hungarian Etymology hu :lbor la:-ēns<id:present active participle> hu la -ēns<id:present active participle><pos:present active participle suffix>. Pronunciation hu ɛnʃ 1 hu -ens Suffix hu suffix A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns and adjectives. It is not an independent Hungarian suffix. hu ágens agent hu dekadens decadent Usage notes Variants: hu -áns is added to back-vowel words hu -ens is added to front-vowel words Derived terms hu noun hu adjective See also Appendix:Hungarian suffixes References Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006 Latin Etymology la present active participle :from la:-ns<id:present active participle> Rebracketing of forms such as la monēns (stem la monē- + suffix la -ns) or la legēns (stem la leg- + thematic vowel la -e- + la -ns). Suffix -ēns<3-P+> ending of the present active participle of second and third conjugation verbs; see la -ns Declension -ēns<3-P+> Descendants ca -ent fr -ant -ent 1 it -ente pt -ente es -iente -ente en -ent 1 nb -ent 1 Latvian Etymology lv 1 Suffix added to nouns to form new nouns; possibly simply a variant of lv -enis Derived terms lv Related terms lv -enis lv -ene lv -ēns Malay Etymology ms en -ence, from ms enm -ence, from ms fro -ence, from ms la -entia. Pronunciation ms [-əns] ms -ens Suffix ms suffix Jawi spelling ـنس ms non-productive -ence ms valens en valence Derived terms ms Related terms ms -ans<t:-ance> ms unproductive suffixes