-гийн
Mongolian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiːŋ/
- Syllabification: гийн (1 syllable)
Suffix
-гийн • (-giin)
- Marks the genitive case:
- In the regular declension after a stem ending in a long vowel other than ⟨ий⟩.
- даваа (davaa, “difficulty”) + -гийн (-giin) → даваагийн (davaagiin, “of difficulty”)
- In the regular declension after a stem ending in the diphthong ⟨иа⟩, ⟨ио⟩ or ⟨иу⟩.
- медиа (media, “media”) + -гийн (-giin) → медиагийн (mediagiin, “of media”)
- In the hidden-g declension.
- орвон (orvon) + орвонгийн (orvongiin) + -гийн (-giin) → of the root
- In the regular declension after a stem ending in a long vowel other than ⟨ий⟩.
- Forms patronymics.
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