Meaning of -t | Babel Free

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

Equivalents

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”

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