-ee
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Definitions of -ee word
- suffix forming noun -ee indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er) 0
- suffix forming noun -ee indicating a person in a specified state or condition 0
- suffix forming noun -ee indicating a diminutive form of something 0
- noun -ee the recipient of a (specified) action, grant, or benefit 0
- noun -ee a person in a (specified) condition 0
- noun -ee a person or thing associated in some way with another 0
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Parts of speech for -ee
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
-ee popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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