-мен

Haplologised from менен (menen), from original برلان‎ (/birlän/, once had been pronounced as мінен (mınen)).

• IPA^(key): /men/
• Hyphenation: -мен

-мен • (-men)

1. Forming the comitative case

   достармен шүйіркелесу ― dostarmen şüiırkelesu ― to have a heart-to-heart talk with friends

2. Forming the instrumental case

   қаламмен жазу ― qalammen jazu ― to write with a pen

   машинамен жүру ― maşinamen jüru ― to go by car

The suffix is not ruled by vowel harmony. It is agglutinated after a vowel or a voiced non-sibilant consonant. When words end with voiced sibilants and voiceless consonants, assimilated variants -бен (-ben) and -пен (-pen) are respectively used.