Alternative forms

-fy

Etymology

From Middle English -ifien, from Old French -ifier, from Latin -ificāre, from -ficus, from faciō (“to make, do”). For example, purify from purificare, from purificus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪfaɪ/

Suffix

-ify (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -ifies, present participle -ifying, simple past and past participle -ified)

Forms transitive verbs meaning "to make" from adjectives and nouns.
Forms intransitive verbs meaning "to become" from adjectives and nouns.

Translations

forms verbs meaning "to make"

Afrikaans: -ifiseer, -fiseer
Albanian: -ifikoj, -fikoj
Arabic: فَعَّلَ (ar) (faʕʕala)
Asturian: -ificar
Azerbaijani: -laşdırmaq, -ləşdirmək
Basque: -ifikatu, -fikatu
Belarusian: -іфікаваць (-ifikavacʹ)
Bulgarian: -ифицирам (-ificiram)
Catalan: -ificar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: -化 (faa³)

Hakka: -化 (fa)

Hokkien: -化 (hoà)

Mandarin: -化 (zh) (-huà)
Czech: -ifikovat, -fikovat
Danish: -ificere, -ficere
Dutch: -ifiseren, -iseren (nl)
Esperanto: -igi (eo)
Finnish: -ntaa (fi), -ntää (fi), -staa (fi), -stää (fi), -ifioida, -fioida
French: -ifier (fr)
Galician: -ificar
German: -fizieren (de), -ifizieren
Greek: -ποιώ (el) (-poió)
Hungarian: -ifikál, -ikál, -ít (hu), -sít (hu), -esít, -osít, -ösít, -asít
Ido: -ifar, -ifikar
Interlingua: -ificar, -ficar
Italian: -ificare, -ficare (it)
Japanese: -化する (ja) (-かする, -ka-suru) (化 (ja) (-か, -ka) + する (ja) (-suru))
Korean: 화(化)하다 (-hwa-hada)
Latin: -ifico
Maltese: -ifika, -fika
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -ifisere, -fisere

Nynorsk: -ifisere, -fisere
Occitan: -ificar, -ficar
Polish: -fikować
Portuguese: -ificar
Romanian: -ifica
Russian: -ифици́ровать (-ificírovatʹ)
Spanish: -ificar (es)
Swedish: -ifiera, -fiera (sv), -ificera, -ficera
Turkish: -laştırmak, -leştirmek
Ukrainian: -ифікува́ти (-yfikuváty)
Vietnamese: ... hoá (vi) (-化 (vi))
Yiddish: ־יפֿיצירן (-ifitsirn)

See also

Anagrams

FYI, yif

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