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Meaning of -t | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR A2

Definitions

  1. Used to form the past tense and/or past participle of some verbs.
    morpheme
  2. An excrescent ending appended to words suffixed with -s.
    morpheme
  3. Used to form nouns from verbs of action; equivalent to -th.
    morpheme
  4. Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives (compare -ate, -ize), frequently having a causative force, or modified from an existing verb into a frequentative verb.
    idiomatic, morpheme
  5. Added to the end of words ending in ⟨d⟩, representing an AAVE pronunciation as /t/ rather than /d/, now generally with intensifying force.
    morpheme, slang

Examples

“leap + -t → leapt”
“keep + -t → kept”
“dream + -t → dreamt”
“sleep + -t → slept”
“against, amidst, amongst, betwixt, whilst, twicet”
“arise + -t → arist”
“bow + -t → bout”
“drive + -t → drift”
“see + -t → sight”
“thieve + -t → theft”
“thrive + -t → thrift”
“yeet (adress with ye), grunt, fidget, haunt (via French), elt (via Old Norse), belt (“to sing loudly”) (perhaps via West Frisian), jolt”
“period + -t → periodt”
“good + -t → goodt”
“Lord + -t → Lordt”
“I'm at a very weird stage in my life where i feel worthless and like I'm ruining out of time but I'm also really young bUT I'm not doing anything I love or that makes me happy so I'm SADT”
“Day two of Lemon flavoured coffee 🥲💔 oh my godt”
“They ate this SO BADT”

CEFR level

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

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