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Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names. / (occasionally derogatory) Forming colloquial nouns signifying the person associated with suffixed noun or verb. / Obsolete spelling of -y

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Source Word

-ie

IPA(Pronunciation)

/-i/

Suffix

morpheme alt-of obsolete

Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names. / (occasionally derogatory) Forming colloquial nouns signifying the person associated with suffixed noun or verb. / Obsolete spelling of -y

Japanese Meaning

1. 名詞や人名から愛称や縮小形を作るための接尾辞。 / 2. (場合によってはやや蔑称的に使用) 動詞や名詞に付いて、その対象となる人やものを示す口語的な名詞を形成する接尾辞。 / 3. -y の旧綴りとしての接尾辞。

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Writers often use the suffix -ie to form affectionate nicknames from ordinary names.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

作家はしばしば名前から愛情のこもった愛称を作るために縮小的な接尾辞を使います。

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Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names.

"Polly, I wish you 'd let me call you Marie," said Fanny one day, as they were shopping together.

"You may call me Mary, if you like; but I won't have any ie put on to my name. I'm Polly at home and I'm fond of being called so; but Marie is Frenchified and silly."