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Meaning of -er | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR A2
/ə/

Definitions

  1. Used to form diminutives.
    morpheme
  2. Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
    morpheme
  3. A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
    dialectal, morpheme
  4. Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
    Chinese, morpheme
  5. A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
    morpheme
  6. Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns.
    idiomatic, morpheme, obsolete
  7. More; used to form the comparative.
    morpheme
  8. Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
    morpheme
  9. Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
    morpheme
  10. A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
    informal, morpheme
  11. A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
    morpheme
  12. A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
    morpheme
  13. Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
    morpheme, slang
  14. A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
    morpheme
  15. A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
    morpheme
  16. Indicates a correspondence or coincidence between the action or condition indicated by the root and the noun being described.
    morpheme, slang
  17. Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
    morpheme
  18. Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
    morpheme

Equivalents

Čeština -ák -an -ář
Deutsch -er
Ελληνικά -άς -ού -τερος
Español -dor -dora -era
Suomi -is -ja -lainen
Français plus
עברית ־אי ־ן
Italiano -ista più
日本語 もっと より
Nederlands -er -se
Polski -acz -aczka -arka
Português -ão -eiro -ejar
Русский -анин -анка -ец
Svenska -are -bo -ist
Türkçe -ci -cı -cu

Examples

“read + -er → reader”
“cook + -er → cooker”
“compute + -er → computer”
“run + -er → runner”
“toast + -er → toaster”
“swim + -er → swimmer”
“do good + -er → do-gooder”
“look + -er → looker (“an attractive person”)”
“keep + -er → keeper (“a person or thing worth keeping”)”
“astrology + -er → astrologer”
“baby boom + -er → baby boomer”
“conlang + -er → conlanger”
“cricket + -er → cricketer”
“trumpet + -er → trumpeter”
“zine + -er → ziner”
“six + -er → sixer”
“six foot + -er → six-footer”
“three-wheel + -er → three-wheeler”
“first grade + -er → first grader”
“percent + -er → percenter (“commission agent”)”
“one hand + -er → one-hander (“one-man show”)”
“oat + -er → oater (“a Western-themed movie”)”
“birth + -er → birther”
“flat earth + -er → flat-earther”
“truth + -er → truther”
“woke + -er → woker”
“bacon + -er → baconer (“pig raised for bacon”)”
“chocolate chip + -er → chocolate chipper (“cookie containing chocolate chips”)”
“sternwheel + -er → sternwheeler (“vessel driven by a sternwheel”)”
“piss + -er → pisser (“a hilariously funny event or situation”)”
“New York + -er → New Yorker”
“London + -er → Londoner”
“Dublin + -er → Dubliner”
“New England + -er → New Englander”
“island + -er → islander”
“highland + -er → highlander”
“East End + -er → East-Ender”
“childer, calver, lamber, linder ("loins")”
“hard + -er → harder”
“wet + -er → wetter”
“motley + -er → motlier”
“eerie + -er → eerier”
“clayey + -er → clayier”
“twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter”
“disclaim + -er → disclaimer”
“remit + -er → remitter”
“misname + -er → misnomer”
“rebut + -er → rebutter”
“attain + -er → attainder”
“shive + -er → shiver”
“slive + -er → sliver”
“splint + -er → splinter”
“association + -er → soccer (“association football”)”
“football + -er → footer (“association football”)”
“rugby + -er → rugger”
“Radcliffe + -er → Radder (“a building at Oxford University”)”
“clive + -er → cliver (“apt to cleave or adhere to, tenacious, expert as seizing”)”
“slip + -er → slipper (“tending to make slip, slippery”)”
“wake + -er → waker (“tending to wake, watchful”)”
“Li’er said hello to his father.”
“Yue’er began to laugh again and her tears shimmered like dew on a lotus leaf disturbed by a breeze. Then we heard a sound. It was Man’er.”
“The fish was laid out on the table, but Ping’er had not come back, nor had his father.”
“Ying’er was not yet three years old. Li’er had always been the one to play with her or to carry her places on his back.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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