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Agent nouns and instruments are formed from verbs with the suffixes ''-jde'' or ''-(a)dra'' (e.g. (e.g. ''ģiģde'' "climber" < ''ģig-'', ''ĺaźdra'' "spade" < ''ĺaź-''). Agents can be formed from verbs or nouns with ''-ju'' (e.g. ''gańu'' "killer" < ''gan-'') and this can be added to adjectives to describe a person or thing bearing that quality (e.g. ''daju'' "good person" < ''dava''). ''-vera'' is added to nouns, verbs or occasionally adjectives meaning "person associated with" (e.g. ''vezvera'' "woodsman" < ''veza''). The ending ''-jaju'' is added to nouns to mean "seeker of" or "lover of" (e.g. ''gaĺaju'' "megalomaniac" < ''gala'' "power").

Diminutives can be formed from nouns with ''-ńa'' (e.g. ''menńa'' "little woman" < ''mena'') and from adjectives with ''-ga'' or ''-ca'' (e.g. ''douga/douca'' "little black one" < ''dova''); ''-ca'' tends to have more negative overtones.