✨Creating an account only takes 20 seconds, and doesn’t require any personal info.
If you’ve got one already, please log in.🤝
Final y
From Teflpedia
(Redirected from Final y transformation)
Final y transformation is the transformation of a final y to i which occurs in English after suffixation with two main rules (1) the final y follows a consonant and (2) the suffix doesn’t begin with I.
Examples:
- Verbs:
- Addition of plural -s; one lily, two lilies.
- Addition of third person -s; I fly, you fly, he flies.
- Addition of -ed; cry → cried (regular verb forms only)
- Adjectives
- Addition of comparative -er, e.g. silly → sillier
- Addition of superlative -est, e.g. silly → silliest.
- Others;
This doesn’t apply to suffixes beginning with I, e.g. -ing, which retain the Y, e.g. so that fly → flying.
This also doesn’t apply to roots that have a vowel before the y, e.g. play → plays (not *plaies).