FromLate Latinēns(“thing”), fromesse(“to be”). Seeentity.
Inflected forms.
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| strong/subject | weak (direct object) | weak (indirect object) | possessive | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| proclitic | enclitic | proclitic | enclitic | |||||
| singular | 1st person | standard | jo,mi3 | em,m’ | -me,’m | em,m’ | -me,’m | meu |
| majestic1 | nós | ens | -nos,’ns | ens | -nos,’ns | nostre | ||
| 2nd person | standard | tu | et,t’ | -te,’t | et,t’ | -te,’t | teu | |
| formal1 | vós | us | -vos,-us | us | -vos,-us | vostre | ||
| very formal2 | vostè | el,l’ | -lo,’l | li | -li | seu | ||
| 3rd person | m | ell | el,l’ | -lo,’l | li | -li | seu | |
| f | ella | la,l’4 | -la | li | -li | seu | ||
| n | ho | -ho | li | -li | seu | |||
| plural | ||||||||
| 1st person | nosaltres | ens | -nos,’ns | ens | -nos,’ns | nostre | ||
| 2nd person | standard | vosaltres | us | -vos,-us | us | -vos,-us | vostre | |
| formal2 | vostès | els | -los,’ls | els | -los,’ls | seu | ||
| 3rd person | m | ells | els | -los,’ls | els | -los,’ls | seu | |
| f | elles | les | -les | els | -los,’ls | seu | ||
| 3rd person reflexive | si | es,s’ | -se,’s | es,s’ | -se,’s | seu | ||
| adverbial | ablative/genitive | en,n’ | -ne,’n | |||||
| locative | hi | -hi | ||||||
1 Behaves grammatically as plural. 2 Behaves grammatically as third person.
3 Only as object of a preposition. 4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
Borrowed fromLatinēns(“being”); compareSpanishente.
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FromMiddle High Germaneines. Cognate withGermaneinst,Dutcheens,Englishonce.
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FromOld Norseeins, fromMiddle Low Germaneines.
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Formed as a present participle ofsum(“to be”) in Medieval Latin (and therefore unknown in the Classical period) by using the bare present participial ending-ēns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to theAncient Greek present participleὤν(ṓn) which falsely appears to be the same bare suffix but etymologically corresponds tosōns, both from*h₁es-(“to be”). See alsoessentia for a similar formation.
The original present participlesōns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form-sēns present in the verbsabsum (absēns(“absent”)) andpraesum (praesēns(“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.
ēns n (genitiveentis);third declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ēns | entia |
| genitive | entis | entium |
| dative | entī | entibus |
| accusative | ēns | entia |
| ablative | entī | entibus |
| vocative | ēns | entia |
ēns (genitiveentis);third-declension one-termination participle
Third-declension participle.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | ēns | entēs | entia | ||
| genitive | entis | entium | |||
| dative | entī | entibus | |||
| accusative | entem | ēns | entēs entīs | entia | |
| ablative | ente entī1 | entibus | |||
| vocative | ēns | entēs | entia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
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FromOld Frenchens.
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FromMiddle High Germanuns, fromOld High Germanuns, fromProto-Germanic*uns, fromProto-Indo-European*n̥smé. Cognate withGermanuns,Englishus; alsoAncient Greekἡμεῖς(hēmeîs),Sanskritअस्मान्(asmān),Old Irishar.
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| Number | Person | nominative | oblique | possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| singular | first | — | jag | mig,mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
| second | — | du | dig,dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
| third | masculine (person) | han | honom,han2,en5 | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hon | henne,na5 | hennes | ||||
| gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen,henom7 | hens | ||||
| common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
| neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
| indefinite | manoren4 | en | ens | ||||
| reflexive | — | sig,sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
| plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår,våran2 | vårt,vårat2 | våra |
| second | — | ni | er | er,eran2,ers6 | ert,erat2 | era | |
| archaic | I | eder | eder,eders6 | edert | edra | ||
| third | — | de,dom3 | dem,dom3 | deras | |||
| reflexive | — | sig,sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
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