-ли

Cognate with Mandarin 了 (le).

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• IPA^(key): /li⁰/

-ли • (-li)

1. Marks the perfective aspect.

   Alternative form: 哩

• -лы (-lı)

From Proto-Turkic *-lig.^[1] Cognates with Turkish -li, Uyghur ـلىك (-lik).

-ли • (-li)

1. Forms adjectives denoting possession of a thing, containing a thing, with a thing etc.

   ‎кир (kir, “dirt”) + ‎-ли (-li) → ‎кирли (kirli, “dirty”)

   ‎бала (bala, “child”) + ‎-лы (-lı) → ‎балалы (balalı, “that who has a child”)

Inherited from Old Slovak -lý, from Proto-Slavic *-lъ. Cognates include Czech -lý, Polish -ły, Russian -лый (-lyj) and Ukrainian -лий (-lyj).

• IPA^(key): [ˈli]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ли

-ли (-li)

1. forms adjectives from verbs, denoting a property that the subject acquired by performing the continuous action of the verb

   ‎сцец (scec, “to want”) + ‎-ли (-li) → ‎сцели (sceli, “willing to work”)

   ‎шмец (šmec, “to dare”) + ‎-ли (-li) → ‎шмели (šmeli, “daring”)

• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1997), “-ЛИ”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 868