In
grammar, a
frequentative form (
abbreviated freq. or
fr.) of a word is one that indicates repeated action. The frequentative form can be considered a separate but not completely independent word called a
frequentative. The frequentative is no longer
productive in English, but it still is some languages, such as Finno-Ugric languages (
Finnish or Hungarian), Balto-Slavic (
Lithuanian, Russian and Polish), Turkic etc.,