-ma

-ma

1. Form of -mə after the vowels A / I / O / U.

-ma

1. Form of -mə after the vowels A / I / O / U.

-ma

1. particle indicating a link between two people

• filanima (“twin”)
• sinama (“co-wife”)
• terima (“friend”)
• tɔgɔma (“homonym”)

-ma

1. particle creating adjectives from common nouns

• sukaroma (“sweet”)
• kɔgɔma (“salty”)
• nɔnɔma (“with milk”)
• cɛma (“male”)
• musoma (“female”)

-ma

1. (demonstrative) that, those

• -pa (“this”)

-ma

1. occurring in Dutch surnames of Frisian origin, ma is probably a shortened form of the old Frisian genitive plural -monna, 'the men's'. After this suffix had fallen into disuse in the Frisian language, it came to be considered as a suffix to form family names.

From Proto-Finnic *-ma. Cognate with Finnish -ma.

-ma (da-infinitive -ta)

1. Forms verbs from nouns.

From Proto-Finnic *-ma. Cognate with Finnish -ma.

-ma

1. The suffix of the ma-infinitive, which is the lemma form of a verb.

From Proto-Finnic *-ma, from Proto-Uralic *-ma (compare Erzya -ма (-ma), -мо (-mo) in эрямо (erjamo, “life”), кулома (kuloma, “death”)).

-ma (front vowel harmony variant -mä)

1. Forms action/result nouns from verbs.

   ‎elää (“to live”) + ‎-ma → ‎elämä (“life”)

   ‎kuolla (“to die”) + ‎-ma → ‎kuolema (“death”)

   ‎osua (“to hit”) + ‎-ma → ‎osuma (“hit”)

   ‎sattua (“to take place”) + ‎-ma → ‎sattuma (“chance”)

   ‎tapahtua (“to happen”) + ‎-ma → ‎tapahtuma (“event”)

2. (unproductive) Forms some diminutive nouns.

From Proto-Finnic *-ma, from Proto-Uralic *-ma.

-ma (front vowel harmony variant -mä)

1. The suffix of the agent participle.

   ‎ajaa (“to drive”) + ‎-ma → ‎ajama (“driven by”)

   miehen ajama auto — car driven by the man

2. The third infinitive suffix; not used on its own, and always receives one of a number of case endings.

Might be somewhat related to Chinese 嗎. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

-ma

1. Final particle which turns the sentence into a polar question.

Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.. The neologists formed new words with it after artificially deducing it from words ending in -ma/-me. [1]

• IPA^(key): [mɒ]

-ma

1. (noun suffix, rare) Added to a word to form a noun.

   játszik (“to play”) → játszma (“game, match”)

• (noun suffix) No longer productive. Harmonic variants:

  -ma is added to back vowel words

  -me is added to front vowel words

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

-ma

1. first person plural exclusive genitive enclitic

-ma

1. first person plural exclusive subject enclitic
2. first person plural exclusive possessive enclitic

• -me
• -sme

-ma

1. Added to adjectives (sometimes to nouns) to form abstract nouns, especially those referring to the state or property that corresponds to the original adjective (like, e.g., Eng. -ity).

• IPA^(key): [-ma]

-ma

1. Forms transitive verbs from nouns and adverbs, with no single clear meaning common to these derivations.

Derivations with this suffix are often not transparent, with various changes being found in the stem. Quite likely such derivations are old and this suffix has long since stopped being productive.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “-ma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 148

• IPA^(key): [ma]

-ma

1. Classifier for masculine animate nouns.

• -ño

• -mɨe

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 170
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 207

-ma

1. masculine/neuter vocative singular of -mant

-ma

1. Negates meaning of the verb.

   Artık senin için ağlamayacağım.

   I won't weep for you any more.

-ma

1. Used to form verbal nouns.

   Unutulmayı hiç sevmem.

   I really don't like to be forgotten.

• Used when the verb's last vowel is a back vowel.

• -me
• değil

-ma

1. causative suffix; to cause to do (the resulting verb is a ni-class verb)