-sen

From søn (“son”); the spelling change ø to e is likely a vowel reduction for ease of pronunciation. See Scandinavian family name etymology.

-sen

1. (not productive) -son; Forms patronymic surnames.

• Norwegian-American Surnames (Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume XII: Page 1

• IPA^(key): /sən/

-sen

1. Alternative form of -s (“patronymic suffix”)

• IPA^(key): /sən/, /zən/
• Voiceless after obstruents, voiced after vowels and sonorants. (In the latter case, /s/ may occur regionally or idiolectally in individual words.)

From Middle High German -sen, byform of -(ez)zen, from Old High German -ezzen, -azzen, from Proto-West Germanic *-attjan, from Proto-Germanic *-atjaną. In some cases merged with unrelated Old High German -isōn, from Proto-Germanic *-isōną. Modern formations often interact with the nominal suffix -s in such a way that it is impossible to say whether the derivation is denominal or deverbal (e.g. stuppen > Stups > stupsen or stuppen > stupsen > Stups).

-sen

1. Verbal suffix that expresses an action being intensified or stretched by iteration.

• -zen, -schen

From Middle Low German -(e)sen, contraction of -hûsen. Thus a byform of German -hausen, which occurs in the same areas in seemingly random variation. Compare -trop, -trup, another Low German contraction that has often survived unaltered.

-sen

1. Placename suffix found in northern Germany.

Borrowed from English -tion or -sion. Doublet of -syen, -shen, -esyen, and -esen. Cognates to Tok Pisin -sen.

• IPA^(key): /-sen/
• Hyphenation: -sén

-sen (Jawi spelling سين-)

1. (Malaysia, Singapore) -tion

   imigresen ― immigration

   stesen ― station

In newer adaptations of English loanwords ending in -tion or -sion, this is now replaced by -si in an effort to make the ending of words of this kind uniform with its Dutch-derived counterparts in Indonesian (compare opsyen for option and aksi for action).

• IPA^(key): /-sən/

-sen

1. -son; a suffix used to form patronymic surnames

From sønn; the spelling change ø to e is likely a vowel reduction for ease of pronunciation. See Scandinavian family name etymology.

-sen

1. -son

Borrowed from English -tion or -sion. Doublet of -sen, -esyen, and -esen. Cognates to Malay -sen and Tagalog -syon.

• IPA^(key): /-ʃən/
• Hyphenation: -syen

-sen

1. -tion

   imigresen ― immigration

   stesen ― station

• -en

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/

-sen

1. (colloquial) verb suffix for the first-person plural conditional
2. (colloquial) verb suffix for the third-person plural conditional