# ־ן
## Hebrew
### Alternative forms

* ־תן (after some words ending with ־ה/־ת)

### Etymology

Cognate with Arabic ـَان (-ān). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

### Suffix

־ָן • (-án)
* -er: forming nouns denoting one with a certain characteristic.
** With the characteristic being a behavior or personality trait.
    מציקן ― m'tsikán ― a bully
    מעתיקן ― ma'atikán ― a copycat
    לאומן ― l'umán ― an ultranationalist
** With the characteristic being a discriminator.
    גזען ― giz'án ― a racist
    גילן ― gilán ― an ageist
** With the characteristic being a profession or other activity.
    פרוון ― parván ― a furrier
    יהלומן ― yahalomán ― a diamantaire
    משפיען ― mashpián ― a [social media] influencer
** With the characteristic being something else.
    צבען ― tsiv'án ― a pigment
    תיקן ― tikán ― a cockroach
* -ium: forming names of chemical elements.
    צורן ― tsorán ― silicon
    סידן ― sidán ― calcium

#### Derived terms

* דאגן (da'agán, “a worry wart”)
* מציקן (m'thikán, “a bully”)
* גזען (giz'án, “a racist”)
* גילן (gilán, “a ableist”)
* סוגן (sugán, “a specieist”)
* דַּגְלָן (daglán, “a flag-bearer”)
* יחצן (yakhtsán, “a publicist”)
* כדורגלן (kaduraglán, “a football (soccer) player”)
* כדורסלן (kadursalán, “a basketball player”)
* ליצן (leitsán, “a clown”)
* מדען (mad'án, “a scientist”)
* סַפְרָן (safrán, “a librarian”)
* צבען (tsiv'án, “a pigment”)
* תיקן (tikán, “a cockroach”)
* אשלגן (ashlagán, “potassium”)
* סידן (sidán, “calcium”)
* פחמן (pakhmán, “carbon”)
* צורן (tsorán, “silicon”)

## Mozarabic
### Etymology

From Latin inde (“thence”). Compare French en (adverb, pronoun) and Italian ne (adverb, pronoun).

### Pronoun

־ן (transliteration needed)
* of that, of him, of her
** c. 1100, Kharja H24 :תן שבדיד ונאריtn šbdyd wn'ryI'll know how to give you some of it

### Notes

Corriente takes ⟨n⟩ to represent a Mozarabic en. His translation also depends on interpreting ⟨šbdy⟩ as a textual corruption for *⟨šbry⟩, hence Mozarabic *šabréy 'I will know [how]'.

### References

* ↑ Corriente, F., Sáenz-Badillos, A. (1994) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt con texto romance de la serie hebrea”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIV, number 3/4, page 289

## Yiddish
### Etymology 1

From Middle High German -en, a merger of various terminations in Old High German reflecting different conjugational patterns, namely -an, -ien, -on, -en, and -non, respectively from Proto-Germanic *-aną, *-janą, *-ōną, *-āną, and *-naną.

#### Alternative forms

* (often used with Slavic borrowings) ־ען (-en)

#### Suffix

־ן • (-n)
* The infinitive marker for verbs, which can be appended to a noun or adjective that means X to create a verb that means "to make X" or "to do X"

##### Derived terms

* ־עווען (-even)

### Etymology 2

Compare German -en, Dutch -en.

#### Suffix

־ן • (-n)
* A plural marker for regular nouns not ending in an unstressed ־ר (-r), ־ם (-m), ־ן (-n), or a vowel.

##### See also

* ־ס (-s)

### Etymology 3

A merger of the nasal inflectional endings of nouns and adjectives of Middle High German: -en, -em.

#### Suffix

־ן • (-n)
* Used to indicate the dative and accusative in the masculine form of adjectives and masculine declined nouns, and the dative in the neuter form of adjectives and feminine declined nouns.

### Etymology 4

From Hebrew ־ָן (-án).

#### Suffix

־ן • (-n) m, plural ־נים (-onem)
* Used to form nouns denoting people of a certain profession or who perform certain habitual actions.

### Etymology 5
#### Suffix

־ן • (-n)
* Regular termination of the first-person plural present indicative form of verbs.
* Regular termination of the third-person plural present indicative form of verbs.