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Sentences with -en

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  • Vixen
  • Chicken
  • Blacken
  • Ashen
  • Risen, written
  • Children, oxen
  • As in take, taken; forgive, forgiven; prove, provenThe -en suffix is also used formally to denote any English past participle, even if it does not use the suffix. Such a use may be described formally as cook + -en → cooked
  • As in forken ( "forked" )
  • Examples: aurochs, aurochsen[1]; bee, been; brother, brethren[1]; child, children[1]; cow, kine; knee, kneen; eye, eyen; hose, hosen; house, housen; ox, oxen[1]; shoe, shoon; sister, sistren; tree, treen, swine
  • Elfin, wolven, peachen
  • Current examples: wood, wooden; gold, golden; brass, brazenObsolete examples: bronze, bronzen; silver, silvernOrphan examples: linen (flax was called lin).
  • Chickenmaidenkitten
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