# -en

-en is a German suffix meaning “A suffix of verbs in their infinitive form.”.

## In other languages

- Русский: окончание инфинитива

## Suffix

1. A suffix of verbs in their infinitive form.
   - managen — to manage
2. A suffix indicating the 1st and 3rd person plural forms (except the present indicative sind of sein).
   - wir kommen — we arrive
3. A suffix appended to strong verb stems to form the past participle, usually together with ge-.
   - fallen + ge- and -en → gefallen

## Suffix

1. a suffix appended to some nouns in all of their plural forms; these nouns are so-called “weak” or “mixed” nouns; they are most often feminine, often masculine, rarely neuter
2. a suffix appended to weak masculine nouns in all oblique cases of the singular, and to some mixed nouns in the singular dative and accusative
3. a suffix appended to most other nouns, the so-called “strong” nouns, in their plural dative
4. a suffix (in fact, the most common declensional ending) which is appended to determiners, adjectives, and participles, for multiple forms of all grammatical cases, both singular and plural

## Suffix

1. A suffix forming adjectives denoting being made from a certain substance or having a particular property
   - Gold (“gold”, noun) + -en → golden (“gold, golden”, adjective)

## Suffix

1. -ene (alkene suffix)

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Sources: Meanings and forms from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
URL: https://wordwide.space/de-en/wort/-en