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 formsēns 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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