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  2. Tamil grammar - Wikipedia

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    Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. These can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc.

  3. Tamil language - Wikipedia

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    Tamil words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc.

  4. Morphological derivation - Wikipedia

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    Derivational morphology often involves the addition of a derivational suffix or other affix. Such an affix usually applies to words of one lexical category (part of speech) and changes them into words of another such category. For example, one effect of the English derivational suffix -ly is to change an adjective into an adverb (slow → slowly).

  5. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    Derivational: a suffix which attaches to a bare stem before other case suffixes and create a new lexical item. To illustrate this paradigm in action, take the case-system of Wanyjirra for whose description Senge invokes this system. Each of the case markers functions in the prototypical relational sense, but many extend into these additional ...

  6. Inflection - Wikipedia

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    Inflection of the Scottish Gaelic lexeme for 'dog', which is cù for singular, chù for dual with the number dà ('two'), and coin for plural. In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation [1] in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and ...

  7. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    Romanian uses suffixes to create diminutives, most of these suffixes being of Latin or Slavic origin. Not only names, but adjectives, adverbs and pronouns can have diminutives as well, as in Portuguese, Polish and Russian. Feminine suffixes-ea (ramură / rămurea = tree branch)-ică (bucată / bucățică = piece)-ioară (inimă / inimioară ...

  8. Tamil honorifics - Wikipedia

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    புலவர் (pulavar) is the Tamil honorific suffix for poets. Notable recipients include Tiruvalluvar , Umaru Pulavar , Mayilvagana Pulavar and Kumaraswamy Pulavar . Although, கவிஞன் (kaviñar) is also used, which is a prefix .

  9. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical ...