-ers

From -er.

-ers(informal, originally school slang)

1. Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.

   ‎breakfast + ‎-ers → ‎brekkers

   ‎divinity + ‎-ers → ‎divvers (“the study of religion”)

2. Used to form mostly adjectives used informally.

-ers

1. plural of -er

• SRE, ser., res., ESR, res, RSE, ser, Res., RES, SER

Inherited from Dutch -ers, a chiefly dialectal plural morpheme equivalent to standard Dutch -eren (whence Afrikaans -ere).

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• Hyphenation: -ers

-ers

1. forms the plural of three nouns, all of which denote young creatures

   ‎kalf (“calf”) + ‎-ers → ‎kalwers (“calves”)

   ‎kind (“child”) + ‎-ers → ‎kinders (“children”)

   ‎lam (“lamb”) + ‎-ers → ‎lammers (“lambs”)

• The colloquial plurale tantum goeters (“things, stuff”) is only etymologically an inflection of goed (“a good”), whose true plural is goedere.
• Two other Afrikaans nouns are backformations from plurals originally using the suffix -ers: eier (“egg”, from Dutch ei) and hoender (“chicken”, from Dutch hoen).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈes]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈeɾs]
• Rhymes: (Central, Balearic) -es, (Valencia) -eɾs
• Hyphenation: -ers

-ers

1. plural of -er

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Hyphenation: -ers

-ers

1. plural of -er

-ers

1. genitive singular of -er