Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /-kan/
- Rhymes: -an
- Hyphenation: -kan
Suffix
-kan (non-active/imperative/basic -kan, active meng- -kan, passive di- -kan)
- used to indicate transitive imperative beneficial verbs
Belikan aku sebatang pensil!- Buy me a pencil!
- used to indicate transitive imperative causative verb, from an intransitive verb base: to order and cause the object to perform [base].
Bangunkan Siti!- Wake up Siti!
- used to indicate transitive imperative instrumental verb, from an intransitive verb base
Tikamkan belati ini ke perut harimau itu!- Thrust this knife into that tiger’s belly!
- used to indicate transitive imperative locative verb, from a noun base.
Pasarkan buku itu!- Take that book to the market!
Gudangkan kursi ini!- Take this chair into the warehouse!
- used to indicate transitive imperative causative verb, from a noun base.
Korbankan dia!- Sacrifice him!
Usage notes
- When this suffix is combined with the prefixes meng-, di-, ter-, and ke-, the imperative aspect is lost.
Suffix
-kan
- Used to indicate transitive imperative verbs
- Belikan saya sebatang pen. ― Buy me a pen.
- Haramkan aktiviti ini. ― Ban this activity.
- (before an object) Used to form transitive verbs
1371 CE [c. 1296–1316 CE], Kadi Hasan, Hikayat Bayan Budiman (fiction), translation of Tutinama by Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi (in Persian); transcribed from Jawi script into the Latin alphabet Ekawati Ekawati, Doni Setiyawan, editors, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, 2016, →ISBN:Sebagai pemimpin, Raja Bayan menyampaikan idenya kepada bayan-bayan yang lain.- Like a leader, King Parrot told his plan to the other parrots.
Noun
-kan (obligatorily possessed)
- bone
See also
- -gan (final for bone)
- -gan-
More information preceding vowel, A / I / O / U ...
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preceding vowel |
A / I / O / U |
E / İ / Ö / Ü |
default |
-gan |
-gen |
assimilated |
-kan |
-ken |
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Suffix
-kan
- Assimilated form of -gan after the vowels A / I / O / U.
- gez- (“to wander, to go about”) + -egen → gezegen (“planet”)
- çekin- (“to abstain, to hesitate”) + -gen → çekingen (“shy, reserved”)
- çalış- (“to work, to study”) + -kan → çalışkan (“hardworking”)