In grammar, a frequentative form of a word is one which indicates repeated action. The frequentative form can be considered a separate, but not completely independent word, called a frequentative. English frequentative is no longer productive, but in some languages, such as Finnish, it is.
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In grammar, a frequentative form of a word is one which indicates repeated action. The frequentative form can be considered a separate, but not completely independent word, called a frequentative. English frequentative is no longer productive, but in some languages, such as Finnish, it is.
English
English has -le or geminate-er as a suffix. Some frequentative verbs surviving in English are listed below. Additionally, English will occasionally form a frequentative verb by reduplication of a monosyllable (e.g., murmur, coo-cooing). Frequentative nouns are often formed by combining two different vowel grades of the same word (as in teeter-tot, pitter-patter, chitchat, etc.)
- batter (bat)
- blabber (blab)
- bobble (bob)
- crackle (crack)
- curdle (curd)
- dazzle (daze)
- flicker (flick)
- flitter (flit)
- flutter (float)
- haggle (hag, =to hew)
- jiggle (jig)
- patter (pat)
- prattle (prate)
- prickle (prick)
- scuffle (scuff)
- slither (slide)
- sniffle (sniff)
- snuggle (snug)
- sparkle (spark)
- straddle (<'stride')
- swaddle (swathe)
- trample (tramp)
- waddle (wade)
- waggle (wag)
- wrestle (wrest)
Finnish
In Finnish, a frequentative verb signifies a single action repeated, "around the place" both spatially and temporally. The complete translation would be "go — around aimlessly". There is a large array of different frequentatives, indicated by lexical agglutinative markers. In general, one frequentative is -:i-, and another -ele-, but it is almost always combined with something else. Some forms:
- sataa — sadella — satelee "to rain — to rain occasionally — it rains occasionally"
- ampua — ammuskella — ammuskelen "to shoot — go shooting around — I go shooting around"
- juosta — juoksennella — juoksentelen "to run — to run around (to and fro) — I run around"
- kirjoittaa — kirjoitella — kirjoittelen "to write — to write (something short) occasionally — I write "around""
- järjestää — järjestellä — järjestelen "to put in order — to arrange continuously, to play around — I play around (with them) in order to put them in order"
- heittää — heittelehtiä — heittelehdit "to throw — to swerve — you swerve"
- loikata — loikkia — loikin "to jump once — to jump (again and again) — I jump (again and again)"
- istua — istuksia — istuksit "to sit — to sit (randomly somewhere), loiter — you loiter there by sitting"
- ajattaa - ajatella — ajattelen "to make someone drive — to think — I think"


























