| The adjective 157
 Suffixes
 Notes
 Examples
 -еньк-
 -есеньк-
 -есн-
 -ИВ-
 -ИМ-
 -ИН-, -1H-
 Evaluative:
 affectionate,
 attenuative (very
 common).
 Colloquial. Evaluative:
 very affectionate and
 rather intensive. See
 -еньк- above.
 Denominal. Ancient
 and unproductive.
 Denominal, denoting
 presence of, capacity
 for, or inclination to in
 the person described
 of the particular
 quality. Also deverbal,
 indicating inclination
 or capacity related to
 the action described by
 the deriving verb. Also
 occurs with -лив-.
 Participial (present
 participle passive),
 Church Slavonic.
 Conveys ability,
 permissibility.
 Denominal (first-
 declension personal
 names and the noun
 мати). Note the
 consonantal alternations.
 Rare with animals,
 where the genitive or
 the suffix -ач- is more
 likely.
 біленький 'white' (from білий
 'white'), кругленький 'round'
 (from круглий 'round'),
 багатенький 'rather rich' (from
 багатий 'rich'), глибоченький
 'quite deep' (from глибокий
 'deep')
 білесенький 'lovely and white',
 гарнесенький 'really lovely'
 (doubly derived from гарний
 'lovely', 'beautiful')
 небесний 'heavenly' (from
 небо 'sky'), словесний 'oral',
 'verbal' (from слово 'word')
 лінивий 'lazy' (from лінь
 'laziness'), розсудливий
 'prudent', 'reasonable' (from
 розсуджувати/розсудити 'to
 decide', 'judge', 'consider')
 припустимий 'admissible',
 'supposed', несходимий
 'limitless', 'immeasurable'
 доччин (дочка), материн
 (мати), Ольжин (Ольга).
 Note орлиний - орлячий.
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