Her face had a girlish charm.
Source: wiktionary
-ish
//ɪʃ//
Synonyms for "-ish" (11 found)
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129 translations across 39 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ëz suffix (appended to words)
Arabic
1 entries- ـِيّ suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Armenian
4 entries- ական suffix (appended to words)
- ական suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ավուն suffix (appended to adjectives)
- ոտ suffix (appended to numbers)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- sov suffix (appended to adjectives)
- təhər suffix (appended to adjectives)
- ımtıl suffix (appended to adjectives)
Basque
1 entries- xka suffix (appended to adjectives)
Czech
1 entries- ský suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Danish
3 entries- esisk suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- isk suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- sk suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Dutch
4 entries- achtig suffix (appended to words)
- achtig suffix (appended to adjectives)
- ig suffix (appended to words)
- ig suffix (appended to adjectives)
Faroese
1 entries- skur suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Finnish
2 entries- hko suffix (appended to adjectives)
- hkö suffix (appended to adjectives)
French
4 entries- ain suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- aine suffix (appended to numbers)
- aine suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ais suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Galician
1 entries- és suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Georgian
4 entries- ელი suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- მო- -ო suffix (appended to adjectives)
- ოდე suffix (appended to numbers)
- ური suffix (appended to words)
German
4 entries- ca. suffix (appended to numbers)
- haft suffix (appended to words)
- ig suffix (appended to words)
- isch suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Greek
1 entries- ικός suffix (appended to words)
Hindi
1 entries- सा suffix (appended to adjectives)
Hungarian
4 entries- as suffix (appended to words)
- as suffix (appended to adjectives)
- beli suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- dad suffix (appended to words)
Icelandic
1 entries- skur suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Indonesian
1 entries- an suffix (appended to numbers)
Irish
1 entries- scoth suffix (appended to adjectives)
Italian
2 entries- ica suffix (appended to words)
- ico suffix (appended to words)
Japanese
1 entries- っぽい suffix (appended to words)
Lithuanian
1 entries- okas suffix (appended to adjectives)
Manx
2 entries- agh suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ish suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Norwegian
1 entries- sk suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- aktig suffix (appended to words)
Old Norse
1 entries- iskr suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Polish
4 entries- awy suffix (appended to adjectives)
- iczny suffix (appended to words)
- koło suffix (appended to numbers)
- około suffix (appended to numbers)
Portuguese
4 entries- esa suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- esas suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- eses suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ico suffix (appended to words)
Romanian
4 entries- esc suffix (appended to words)
- esc suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ic suffix (appended to words)
- iu suffix (appended to words)
Russian
2 entries- ва́тый suffix (appended to adjectives)
- ский suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Sanskrit
1 entries- ईय suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- ast suffix (appended to adjectives)
Sicilian
4 entries- ana suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ani suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- anu suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- isa suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Spanish
4 entries- ento suffix (appended to adjectives)
- esa suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
- ico suffix (appended to words)
- iento suffix (appended to words)
Swedish
2 entries- aktig suffix (appended to words)
- isk suffix (appended to roots denoting names of nations or regions)
Turkish
4 entries- ca suffix (appended to words)
- ce suffix (appended to words)
- imsi suffix (appended to adjectives)
- imtrak suffix (appended to adjectives)
Welsh
2 entries- aidd suffix (appended to words)
- aidd suffix (appended to adjectives)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
[…] ; for she had recently developed a magpie[-]ish tendency to appropriate and conceal trifling matters; […]
Source: wiktionary
Her face had a bluish tinge.
Source: wiktionary
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
Source: wiktionary
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