~者 (person suffix)

grammar

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The Sino-Japanese suffix ~者 (read しゃ in Sino-Japanese compounds, もの in native readings) attached to a noun or verb-stem to form 'person who does X / X-person / specialist in X.' 学者 ('scholar'), 著者 ('author'), 編集者 ('editor'), 走者 ('runner'), 読者 ('reader'), 関係者 ('interested party'), 記者 ('journalist'), 怠け者 ('lazy person'), 働き者 ('hard worker').

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