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-erei

-erei

German

Suffix

-erei f (genitive -erei, plural -ereien)

  1. Used to form verbal nouns, which often have an informal and/or negative overtone.
    warten (to wait)Warterei ([lengthy] waiting)
    singen (to sing)Singerei ([unpleasant] singing)

Usage notes

  • This suffix is of virtually unlimited productivity in colloquial German.
  • Verbs whose stems end in -er- or -el- use the simple suffix -ei instead:
quengeln (to whine)Quengelei (whining)

Synonyms

See also


Italian

Etymology

From -er- + -ei.

The Italian conditional mood stems from a Vulgar Latin periphrastic verb form consisting of infinitive + perfect of habere. Example: Italian loderei (I would praise) stems from Vulgar Latin laudare + hĕbui.[1]

Suffix

-erei

  1. Used with a stem to form the first-person singular conditional of regular -are and -ere verbs.
See also Italian grammar, section Conditional mood in the English Wikipedia.

Related terms

Verb affix + Historic → Conditional
-er-, -ir- + -ei -erei, -irei
-esti -eresti, -iresti
-ebbe -erebbe, -irebbe
-emmo -eremmo, -iremmo
-este -ereste, -ireste
-ebbero -erebbero, -irebbero

References

  1. 1 2 Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page 153