man + -ly → manly
Source: wiktionary
-ly
//li//
Synonyms for "-ly" (12 found)
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Translations
141 translations across 53 languages.
Ainu
1 entries- no suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Aragonese
1 entries- mén suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Armenian
2 entries- բար suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- որեն suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Asturian
1 entries- mente suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- cə suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- lik suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "occurring at such intervals")
Basque
1 entries- eki suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Burmese
1 entries- စွာ suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Catalan
1 entries- ment suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 地 suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- 地 suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- 的 suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Czech
1 entries- ě suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Danish
3 entries- agtig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- lig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- lig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "occurring at such intervals")
Dutch
4 entries- achtig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- erwijs suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- genoeg suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Esperanto
2 entries- a suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- e suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Estonian
1 entries- lt suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Faroese
2 entries- liga suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ligur suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Finnish
2 entries- mainen suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- sti suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
French
2 entries- ment suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- ment suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Galician
3 entries- mente suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- mente suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- oso suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Georgian
4 entries- ად suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- დ suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ულად suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ული suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
German
4 entries- erweise suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- haft suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- ig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- isch suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Greek
2 entries- α suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ως suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Hebrew
1 entries- ב־ suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Hungarian
4 entries- an suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- as suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- en suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- es suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Icelandic
2 entries- lega suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- legur suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Ido
2 entries- atra suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- e suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Igbo
1 entries- na suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Italian
1 entries- mente suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Japanese
2 entries- ...く suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ...に suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Latin
2 entries- iter suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ē suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Latvian
1 entries- i suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Lithuanian
1 entries- i suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Macedonian
1 entries- о suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Middle English
2 entries- ly suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- ly suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Mongolian
1 entries- хан suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Navajo
1 entries- go suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Neapolitan
1 entries- mente suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Norman
1 entries- ment suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- ane suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- ane suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "occurring at such intervals")
Occitan
1 entries- ment suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Ojibwe
1 entries- a suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Old English
3 entries- e suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- līċ suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- līċe suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Persian
3 entries- ـانه suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ـیها suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- مآبانه suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Polish
2 entries- co suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "occurring at such intervals")
- o suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Portuguese
4 entries- ento suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- mente suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- mente suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- oso suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Russian
4 entries- е suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- еже suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "occurring at such intervals")
- о suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- по-...-ски suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- ně suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Spanish
4 entries- a lo suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- de manera suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- mente suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- oso suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Swedish
4 entries- aktig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- artad suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- isk suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- lig suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Turkish
4 entries- bir şekilde suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ca suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
- ca suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
- ce suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Ukrainian
1 entries- що- -ний suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "occurring at such intervals")
Urdu
1 entries- ی suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Walloon
1 entries- mint suffix (used to form adverbs from adjectives)
Welsh
1 entries- us suffix (forming adjectives from nouns, in the sense "similar to, like, characteristic of")
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
comrade + -ly → comradely
Source: wiktionary
bloom + -ly → bloomly
Source: wiktionary
muscle + -ly → muscly
Source: wiktionary
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