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Meaning of -t | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Used to form the past tense and/or past participle of some verbs.
  2. An excrescent ending appended to words suffixed with -s.
  3. Used to form nouns from verbs of action; equivalent to -th.
  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.
  5. Added to the end of words ending in ⟨d⟩, representing an AAVE pronunciation as /t/ rather than /d/, now generally with intensifying force.

Equivalents

Polski -ść

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

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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