| Affix function | number of borrowed affixes |
|---|---|
Information and examples are from Schlücker (2024), who anaylzed thousands of tokens with -like in the internet-based GermanWeb 2020/deTenTen20 corpus (Jakubíček et al. 2013) showing that 57.3% of the forms with -like are hybrid formations and that -like has become a producive word-formation pattern in German, at least in certain registers.
adjectivizer
-like, e.g. kirchenlike ‘church-like’, mensch-like ‘human-like’, Zürich-like, eisenbahnlike ‘railway-like’.