# -re
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin -ere.

### Suffix

-re
* forms Catalan second conjugation verbs

#### Conjugation

Variations to the Catalan second conjugation may show up.

##### Regular conjugation

The preterite originally had -est for the second person singular and -ès for the plural in older versions of Catalan.

## Finnish
### Alternative forms

* -r

### Etymology

-ra +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /-reˣ/, [-re̞(ʔ)]

### Suffix

-re
* Forms nouns, mostly from nominal stems.

#### Usage notes

Attaches to the strong stem, while the alternative form -r attaches to the weak stem.

#### Derived terms
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin -ere, third conjugation infinitive of -ō or -iō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁ/

### Suffix

-re
* one of the three main verb endings, along with -er and -ir

#### Usage notes

* Technically, -re is not a suffix or even a verb ending proper, as it is always part of a wider pattern in -dre, -ttre, -ire etc., and is only used as such for its practical aspect, as it groups verbs of very different conjugations, and several verbs of the third group do not end in -re.

#### Conjugation

* The table above shows the conjugation of verbs ending in -dre (e.g. rendre, vendre, ardre).
* In most verbs ending in -ttre, -tt regularly degeminates to -t before suffixes -s and -∅ (battre — bats, bat, not *batts, *batt).
* In most verbs ending in -ire, -is- are added between verb stem and verb ending starting in vowels (conduire — conduisais, but conduis), and past participle ends in -t, not *-isu.
* There are many exceptions on -re verbs, the most irregular -re verb is the auxiliary verb être. See more at Appendix:French irregular verbs.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [rɛ]
* Rhymes: -rɛ

### Suffix

-re
* (sublative case suffix) Front-vowel variant of -ra. See details there.
    szőnyeg (“carpet”) → Tedd a szőnyegre. ― Put it on the carpet.
    perc (“minute, moment”) → egy percre ― for a moment
    kedd (“Tuesday”) → Kész lesz keddre? ― Will it be ready by Tuesday?

#### Usage notes

* (sublative case suffix) Variants:
    -ra is added to back-vowel words. Final -a changes to -á-.
       pad (“bench”) → Leültem egy padra. ― I sat down on a bench.
       alma (“apple”) → Allergiás vagyok az almára. ― I am allergic to apples.
    -re is added to front-vowel words. Final -e changes to -é-.
       szék (“chair”) → Leültem egy székre. ― I sat down on a chair.
       béke (“peace”) → Mindenki békére vágyik. ― Everyone longs for peace.
| Case | Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú | Front vowel | Front vowel |
| Case | Back vowel a, á, o, ó, u, ú | unrounded e, é, i, í | rounded ö, ő, ü, ű |
| nominative | — | — | — |
| accusative | -t | -t | -t |
| accusative | -ot / -at | -et | -öt |
| dative | -nak | -nek | -nek |
| instrumental | -val | -vel | -vel |
| causal-final | -ért | -ért | -ért |
| translative | -vá | -vé | -vé |
| terminative | -ig | -ig | -ig |
| essive-formal | -ként | -ként | -ként |
| essive-modal | -ul | -ül | -ül |
| inessive | -ban | -ben | -ben |
| superessive | -n | -n | -n |
| superessive | -on | -en | -ön |
| adessive | -nál | -nél | -nél |
| illative | -ba | -be | -be |
| sublative | -ra | -re | -re |
| allative | -hoz | -hez | -höz |
| elative | -ból | -ből | -ből |
| delative | -ról | -ről | -ről |
| ablative | -tól | -től | -től |
| Note for all endings: Stem-final -a/-e changes to -á-/-é-, respectively, except before -ként.  alma — almában, but almaként  zene ― zenében, but zeneként ||||

### See also

* rá
* Category:Hungarian terms taking -ra/-re
* Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
$^1$Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns /

## Japanese
### Romanization

-re
* Rōmaji transcription of れ

## Middle English
### Noun

-re
* Alternative form of -erie

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz, from Latin -ārius.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /re/

### Suffix

-re
* (Late West Saxon) masculine agent suffix, originally applied only to nouns
    ‎fugol (“fowl, bird”) + ‎-re → ‎fuglre (“fowler”)

#### Declension

Strong ja-stem:

#### Descendants

* English: -er

## Romanian
### Etymology

From the Latin infinitive endings (-are, -ere, -ire). Used in Romanian with a verb to form the "long infinitive", which is a verbal noun. See also the short infinitive forms of Romanian verbs, -a, -ea, -e, and -i.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /re/

### Suffix

-re f (plural -ri)
* Attached to the ends of verb infinitives to form nouns, meaning "the action or result of"; -ing, -ation
    ‎traduce (“to translate”) + ‎-re → ‎traducere - translating, translation (the action or result of translation)
    ‎conjuga (“to conjugate”) + ‎-re → ‎conjugare - conjugating, conjugation (the action or result of conjugation)
    ‎vorbi (“to speak”) + ‎-re → ‎vorbire - speech, speaking (the action or result of speech)
    ‎avea (“to have”) + ‎-re → ‎avere - wealth, riches (the result of having)

#### Usage notes

Most verb infinitives simply add -re, but second conjugation verbs (those ending in -ea) drop the a before adding the suffix. Verbs in -î change to â in accordance with normal orthographic rules.

##### Type 1

    cânta becomes cântare
    lucra becomes lucrare

##### Type 2

    plăcea becomes plăcere
    vedea becomes vedere

##### Type 3

    cere becomes cerere
    naște becomes naștere

##### Type 4

    vorbi becomes vorbire
    urî becomes urâre

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse -ri, from Proto-Germanic *-izô.

### Suffix

-re
* Forms the comparative degree of a few adjectives, most of which change their stem vowel (umlaut) when this happens.
    lång (long), längre (longer)
    ung (young), yngre (younger)

### See also

* -are

### Anagrams

* -er, er, er-