-eth
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /-əθ/
- (archaic) Used to form the third-person singular present indicative of verbs.
- goeth, playeth
- (humorous) replaces -s or -es (of verb forms and noun plurals), or is appended to other verb forms, forming nonce, pseudoarchaic versions of the word
- I emaileth, he emaileth; thou saideth; he killedeth; respondeth to my messageth.
- used to create ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers ending in -y, namely the multiples of ten (other than ten itself): 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90; e.g. twentieth, thirtieth.
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