-kuéra
Paraguayan Guarani
Alternative forms
- -nguéra (for nasal words)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɾa
Suffix
-kuéra
- Used to form plurals of nouns.
- ñandukuéra
- spiders
Usage notes
This suffix is used in words whose last syllable is oral (as opposed to nasal). If this syllable were nasal, the suffix -nguéra would be used instead.
References
- Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “kuéra”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 50, column 2