Meanings
plural suffix for family names that end in a sibilant consonant
Schmitz → (die) Schmitzens (“the Schmitzes, “the Schmitz family”)
3 more meanings
Suffix
archaicgenitive suffix for personal names that end in a sibilant consonant
Max → Maxens Vater (“Max’s father”)
archaicgenitive suffix for personal names that end in -ia
Claudia → Claudiens Tochter (“Claudia’s daughter”)
Suffix
forms adverbs from superlatives and ordinal numbers
der erste (“the first”) → erstens (“firstly”)