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-ers

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See also: ers, ERs, and ERS

English

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Oxford "-er"

Etymology

From -er.

Suffix

-ers(informal, originally school slang)

Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
‎breakfast + ‎-ers → ‎brekkers

‎divinity + ‎-ers → ‎divvers (“the study of religion”)
Used to form mostly adjectives used informally.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -ers (Oxford)

Suffix

-ers

plural of -er

Anagrams

SRE, ser., res., ESR, res, RSE, ser, Res., RES, SER

Afrikaans

Etymology

Inherited from Dutch -ers, a chiefly dialectal plural morpheme equivalent to standard Dutch -eren (whence Afrikaans -ere).

Pronunciation

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Hyphenation: -ers

Suffix

-ers

forms the plural of three nouns, all of which denote young creatures
‎kalf (“calf”) + ‎-ers → ‎kalwers (“calves”)

‎kind (“child”) + ‎-ers → ‎kinders (“children”)

‎lam (“lamb”) + ‎-ers → ‎lammers (“lambs”)

Usage notes

The colloquial plurale tantum goeters (“things, stuff”) is only etymologically an inflection of goed (“a good”), whose true plural is goedere.
Two other Afrikaans nouns are backformations from plurals originally using the suffix -ers: eier (“egg”, from Dutch ei) and hoender (“chicken”, from Dutch hoen).

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈe̞s]
IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Northwestern) [ˈes]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈeɾs]
Rhymes: (Central, Balearic) -es, (Valencia) -eɾs
Hyphenation: -ers

Suffix

-ers

plural of -er

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/
Rhymes: -ɛʁ
Hyphenation: -ers

Suffix

-ers

plural of -er

German

Pronunciation

Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Suffix

-ers

genitive singular of -er

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