-er
Pronunciation Suffix
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Pronunciation Suffix
(added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun. - (added to verbs, informal) A person or thing to which the root verb can satisfactorily be done.
- look + -er → looker
- keep + -er → keeper
- (added to a noun denoting an occupation) A person whose occupation is (the noun).
- astrology + -er → astrologer
- cricket + -er → cricketer
- trumpet + -er → trumpeter
- (added to a number, measurement or noun denoting a quantified set) A name for a person or thing that is based on a number (with or without a noun).
- six + -er → sixer
- six foot + -er → six-footer
- three-wheel + -er → three-wheeler
- first grade + -er → first-grader
(slang, chiefly, entertainment, with few limitations) Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms. - (informal, added to a noun) One who enjoys.
- Tooners lined up for tickets to Toy Story.
- (derogatory, added to nouns) Person who subscribes to a particular conspiracy theory or unorthodox belief.
- French: -eur, -euse
- German: -er
- Italian: -ore, -tore
- Portuguese: -dor
- Russian: -тель
- Spanish: -dor, -dora, -ero, -era
- (added to a proper noun) Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- New York + -er → New Yorker
- London + -er → Londoner
- Dublin + -er → Dubliner
- New England + -er → New Englander
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- island + -er → islander
- highland + -er → highlander
- eastend + -er → eastender
- prison + -er → prisoner
- (obsolete, no longer productive) Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns.
- childer, calver, lamber, linder "loins"
- (added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative.
- long + -er → longer
- big + -er → bigger
- fast + -er → faster
- simple + -er → simpler
- French: plus (used before the adjective)
- German: -er
- Italian: più (used before the adjective)
- Portuguese: mais
- Russian: бо́лее
- Spanish: más (used before the adjective)
- French: plus (used before the adverb)
- German: -er
- Portuguese: mais
- Spanish: más (used before the adverb)
- (added to a verb or imitative sound) Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter
- (used to form frequentative) -le
- Portuguese: -ejar
- (added to a verb) Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs, especially in legal terms.
- disclaim + -er → disclaimer
- remit + -er → remitter
- misname + -er → misnomer
- rebut + -er → rebutter
- (added to a verb or noun) Used to form diminutives.
- shive + -er → shiver
- slive + -er → sliver
- splint + -er → splinter
(originally public school slang) Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words. - association + -er → soccer
- football + -er → footer
- rugby + -er → rugger
- breakfast + -er → brekkers
- Radcliffe + -er → Radder
- divinity + -er → divvers
- -ers
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