- haft ‘like’ (see 74 )
lehrerhaft ‘schoolmasterly’, meisterhaft ‘masterful’- isch (sometimes with umlaut) (see 74 )
kindisch ‘childish’, exemplarisch ‘exemplary’, spöttisch ‘mocking’- lich (sometimes with umlaut)
kindlich ‘childlike’, freundlich ‘friendly’, vertraglich ‘contractual’
(but verträglich ‘agreeable, digestible’), täglich ‘daily’, wöchentlich
‘weekly’, monatlich ‘monthly’, jährlich ‘yearly’, zweijährlich
‘biennially’See also 40.4c (p. 105).
- en/-ern (sometimes with umlaut)
golden ‘golden’, eisern ‘made of iron’, hölzern ‘wooden’- ig (sometimes with umlaut)
eisig ‘icy’, brüchig ‘fragile’, dreistündig ‘lasting three hours’, zweitägig
‘lasting two days’, dreiwöchig ‘lasting three weeks’, viermonatig
‘lasting four months’, sechsjährig ‘lasting six years’- mäßig ‘pertaining to’
gefühlsmäßig ‘emotional’, planmäßig ‘according to (the) plan’,
geschäftsmäßig ‘businesslike’- freundlich ‘friendly towards/good for’
umweltfreundlich ‘environmentally friendly’, kinderfreundlich ‘good
for children’, familienfreundlich ‘good for the family’- feindlich ‘hostile towards/bad for’
umweltfeindlich ‘bad for the environment’, kinderfeindlich ‘anti-
children/not catering for children’, familienfeindlich ‘hostile to the
family’- nah ‘close to’
bürgernah ‘close to ordinary people’, praxisnah ‘applied’ (rather than
theoretical)- fern ‘distant from’
bürgerfern ‘remote from ordinary people’, praxisfern ‘not very
practically orientated/theoretical’- reich ‘rich in/high in’
kinderreich ‘having many children’, ideenreich ‘with lots of ideas’,
phosphatreich ‘high in phosphates’- arm ‘poor in/low in’
kinderarm ‘with not many children’, phosphatarm ‘low in phosphates’55
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