-менен

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	ـمەنەن
Cyrillic	-менен
Latin	-menen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bile (“with; together, also”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲenʲen]
• Hyphenation: -менен

Suffix

-менен • (-menen)

1. Forms the joint comitative–instrumental case
   1. Forms the comitative case

      достарменен шүйіркелесу ― dostarmenen şüiırkelesu ― to have a heart-to-heart talk with friends

   2. Forms the instrumental case

      қаламменен жазу ― qalammenen jazu ― to write with a pen

      машинаменен жүру ― maşinamenen jüru ― to go by car

Usage notes

• The shortened form of the suffix, -мен is now used more often.
• The suffix is not ruled by vowel harmony. It is agglutinated after a vowel or a voiced non-sibilant consonant. When words end with voiced sibilants and voiceless consonants, assimilated variants -бенен (-benen) and -пенен (-penen) are respectively used.