-em
Albanian
    
    Alternative forms
    
- -hna (Gheg)
Etymology
    
Related to më, mu, mua (“me”) and im (“my, mine”). -em is the Tosk and Standard Albanian variant of the Gheg personal suffix -na (“I, me”). The suffix -em (“I, me”) indicates the 1st person singular, mediopassive, present (same as Gheg -na). Used the same way as Greek verb suffix "-μαι/-mai" (also 1st pers., sg., mediopassive, indicative, present).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɛm/ (Standard)
- IPA(key): /em/
Suffix
    
-em
- (personal suffix) used to form the 1st person singular present tense of verbs in mediopassive voice (indicative mood).
- Forms verbs in mediopassive voice from active voice
- Forms mediopassive verbs from adjectives
- adjective shkurt (“short”) + o-steem + h (mediopassive marker) + -em → mediopassive verb shkurtohem (“I become shorter”)
 
| mediopassive personal suffixes (1st person singular) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | subjunctive | conditional | optative | admirative | |
| (dëftore) | (lidhore) | (kushtore) | (dëshirore) | (habitore) | |
| present | -em | (të) -em | (do të) -esha | (u) -sha / -fsha | (u) -am | 
| continuous present | (po) -em | (po të) -em | (po do të) -esha | (po u) -am | |
| imperfect | -esha | (të) -esha | (u) -ësha | ||
| continuous imperfect | (po) -esha | (po të) -esha | (po u) -ësha | ||
| aorist | (u) -a / (u) -va | - | - | - | - | 
| perfect | j-am (+ participle) | (të) j-em (+ participle) | qof-sha (+ participle) | qenk-am (+ participle) | |
| past perfect I | isha (+ participle) | (të) isha (+ participle) | (do të) isha (+ participle) | qenk-ësha (+ participle) | |
| past perfect II (aorist II) | q-eshë (+ participle) | ||||
| future I | k-am (për t'u + participle) | (do të) -em | |||
| future perfect | k-am (për të qenë + participle) | (do të) j-em (+ participle) | |||
Bislama
    
    
Usage notes
    
The suffix to be used is determined by vowel harmony. If the last vowel in the stem is a, e, or o (or a diphthong ending in one of those), then the suffix is -em. Otherwise, use -im or -um.
Chuukese
    
    
Related terms
    
| Small objects, concepts | Large objects, living things | Suffix | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First person | ai | nei | -ei | 
| Second person | omw, om | noum | -om | |
| Third person | an | noun | -an | |
| Plural | First person | äm (exclusive) ach (inclusive) | nöu̇m (exclusive) nöüch (inclusive) | -em (exclusive) -ach (inclusive) | 
| Second person | ämi, ami | noumi | -emi | |
| Third person | ar | nour | -er | 
Etruscan
    
    
German
    
    Etymology 1
    
From Middle High German -em, -eme, from Proto-West Germanic *-umē.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /əm/
Suffix
    
-em
- Masculine and neuter dative suffix, used in most determiners/pronouns and in strong adjectives.
Etymology 2
    
Through reduction of the unstressed syllable.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /əm/, /ɛm/
- Most or all places are locally pronounced with /əm/, but /ɛm/ is not rarely heard from outsiders.
Derived terms
    
- Bachem
- Badem
- Bockenem
- Cochem
- Dahlem
- Eulgem
- Fließem
- Gilzem
- Horrem
- Katzem
- Ließem
- Luxem
- Mehlem
- Niederaussem
- Niederstedem
- Pickließem
- Sechtem
- Sehlem
- Spangdahlem
- Stockem
- Wierschem
Etymology 3
    
Backformation from Phonem.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈeːm/
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Derived terms
    
Hungarian
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ɛm]
- Rhymes: -ɛm
Suffix
    
-em
Usage notes
    
| Person | Back vowel | Front vowel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| én | 1st person singular | -ok | -ek | -ök | 
| -ik verbs (optional) | -om | -em | -öm | |
| te | 2nd person singular | -sz | ||
| after two consonants or a long vowel + t | -asz | -esz | ||
| after s, sz, z, dz | -ol | -el | -öl | |
| ő maga ön | 3rd person singular | – | ||
| -ik verbs | -ik | |||
| mi | 1st person plural | -unk | -ünk | |
| ti | 2nd person plural | -tok | -tek | -tök | 
| after two consonants or a long vowel + t | -otok | -etek | -ötök | |
| ők maguk önök | 3rd person plural | -nak | -nek | |
| after two consonants or a long vowel + t | -anak | -enek | ||
| See also: present-tense definite-object suffixes and second-person-object suffixes for informal addressing. | ||||
- (personal suffix) Variants:
| Person | Back vowel | Front vowel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| én | 1st person singular | -om | -em | -öm | 
| te | 2nd person singular | -od | -ed | -öd | 
| ő maga ön | 3rd person singular or formal 2nd person singular | -ja | -i | |
| mi | 1st person plural | -juk | -jük | |
| ti | 2nd person plural | -játok | -itek | |
| ők maguk önök | 3rd person plural or formal 2nd person plural | -ják | -ik | |
| See also: present-tense indefinite-object suffixes and second-person-object suffixes for informal addressing. | ||||
- (personal suffix, definite conjugation) Variants:
- (possessive suffix) Variants:
- -m is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.
- -am is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -om is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -em is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant
- -öm is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant
 
Declension
    
(possessive suffix):
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | -em | — | 
| accusative | -emet | — | 
| dative | -emnek | — | 
| instrumental | -emmel | — | 
| causal-final | -emért | — | 
| translative | -emmé | — | 
| terminative | -emig | — | 
| essive-formal | -emként | — | 
| essive-modal | -emül | — | 
| inessive | -emben | — | 
| superessive | -emen | — | 
| adessive | -emnél | — | 
| illative | -embe | — | 
| sublative | -emre | — | 
| allative | -emhez | — | 
| elative | -emből | — | 
| delative | -emről | — | 
| ablative | -emtől | — | 
| non-attributive possessive - singular | -emé | — | 
| non-attributive possessive - plural | -eméi | — | 
Suffix
    
-em
Usage notes
    
Declension
    
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | -em | -emek | 
| accusative | -emet | -emeket | 
| dative | -emnek | -emeknek | 
| instrumental | -emmel | -emekkel | 
| causal-final | -emért | -emekért | 
| translative | -emmé | -emekké | 
| terminative | -emig | -emekig | 
| essive-formal | -emként | -emekként | 
| essive-modal | -emül | -emekül | 
| inessive | -emben | -emekben | 
| superessive | -emen | -emeken | 
| adessive | -emnél | -emeknél | 
| illative | -embe | -emekbe | 
| sublative | -emre | -emekre | 
| allative | -emhez | -emekhez | 
| elative | -emből | -emekből | 
| delative | -emről | -emekről | 
| ablative | -emtől | -emektől | 
| non-attributive possessive - singular | -emé | -emeké | 
| non-attributive possessive - plural | -eméi | -emekéi | 
| Possessive forms of -em | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions | 
| 1st person sing. | -emem | -emeim | 
| 2nd person sing. | -emed | -emeid | 
| 3rd person sing. | -eme | -emei | 
| 1st person plural | -emünk | -emeink | 
| 2nd person plural | -emetek | -emeitek | 
| 3rd person plural | -emük | -emeik | 
Derived terms
    
See also
    
- Category:Hungarian verb forms
- Category:Hungarian noun forms
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
Latin
    
    Pronunciation
    
- (Classical) IPA(key): /em/, [ɛ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /em/, [ɛm]
Etymology 1
    
See -ēs (suffix forming third-declension feminine abstract nouns).
Etymology 2
    
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Old Irish
    
    Etymology 1
    
From Proto-Celtic *-mū, from Proto-Indo-European *-mō.[1]
Suffix
    
-em m
Inflection
    
| Masculine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | -em | -emainL | -emain | 
| Vocative | -em | -emainL | -emnaH | 
| Accusative | -emainN | -emainL | -emnaH | 
| Genitive | -eman | -emanL | -emanN | 
| Dative | -emainL, -emL | -emnaib | -emnaib | 
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: 
 | |||
Derived terms
    
Etymology 2
    
From Proto-Celtic *-īmā, a verbal noun suffix for -ī- verbs in Celtic. Cognate with Welsh -i, from Proto-Brythonic *-iβ̃.
Suffix
    
-em f
- Forms verbal nouns of class A II weak verbs with roots ending in dentals.
- feithid (“to watch over”) + -em → fethem (“watching over”)
- moídid (“to boast”) + -em → moídem (“boasting”)
- ad·gládathar (“to converse with”) + -em → acaldam (“conversation”)
 
Inflection
    
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | -emL | — | — | 
| Vocative | -emL | — | — | 
| Accusative | -imN | — | — | 
| Genitive | -meH | — | — | 
| Dative | -imL | — | — | 
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: 
 | |||
References
    
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*karafyo-(mon)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 189-190
Pijin
    
    
Usage notes
    
The suffix to be used is determined by vowel harmony. If the last vowel in the stem is a, e, or o (or a diphthong ending in one of those), then the suffix is -em. Otherwise, use -im or -um.
Vlax Romani
    
    
Suffix
    
-em
- Attaches to the perfective stem to form the first-person singular past tense.
Volapük
    
    Suffix
    
-em
- An inanimate collective morpheme for a group of things
Derived terms
    
Welsh
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɛm/