-дах

(Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /təx/

From Proto-Mongolic *-da-.

-дах • (-dah) (Mongolian spelling ᠳᠠᠬᠤ (daqu)) (complying with vowel harmony)

1. (forming verbs out of nouns)
   1. to use (a tool, a substance)

      тос (tos) - fat, grease

      тосдох (tosdoh) - to smear with grease

   2. to grab by

      хүзүү (hüzüü) - neck

      хүзүүдэх (hüzüüdeh) - to grab by neck

   3. to hit with

      чулуу (čuluu) - rock

      чулуудах (čuluudah) - to hurl a rock

   4. to be subject to

      газар (gazar) - ground

      газардах (gazardah) - to land, to touch the ground

From Proto-Mongolic *-d-

-дах • (-dah) (Mongolian spelling ᠳᠬᠤ (dqu)) (complying with vowel harmony)

1. (forming verbs out of adjectives) to possess a quality, to possess a quality to an excessive degree, more than suitable.

   жижиг (žižig) — small

   жижигдэх (žižigdeh) — to be (too) small

• Can also be added to privative forms in -гүй (-güj)

Inherited from Classical Mongolian -ᠳᠠ- (-da-), regularly used after consonant stems in -ᠯ- (-l-) in Classical Mongolian.

-дах • (-dah) (complying with vowel harmony)

1. variant form of -гдах (-gdah)

• This form is used with some verbs ending in л (l) or с (s)