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suffix |
examples of nouns |
-age |
village dosage orphanage footage postage |
-al |
arrival (bury) burial (defer=يؤجل) deferral |
-ance/-ence |
reliance resistance governance dependence (US : dependance) insistence defence |
-dom |
boredom freedom (wise) wisdom kingdom |
-ee |
employee interviewee payee trainee |
-er/-or |
teacher driver writer actor director |
-ess |
actress tigress stewardess waitress |
-hood |
brotherhood childhood brotherhood neighbourhood |
-ism |
capitalism Marxism socialism tourism feminism |
-ist |
capitalist Marxist socialist scientist feminist |
-ity/-ty/-y |
brutality equality cruelty safety anxiety poverty recovery difficulty |
-ment |
amazement, disappointment deferment government |
-ness |
happiness kindness usefulness fitness awareness |
-ry |
entry ministry robbery |
-ship |
friendship membership leadership championship |
-sion/-tion/-xion/-ation |
expression pollution contextualisation complexion |
-cy |
accuracy literacy dependency residency |
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Suffix |
Examples of adjectives |
-able -ible |
drinkable portable flexible possible terrible |
-al |
natural brutal formal postal |
-ial |
financial residential (picture; pictorial) industrial memorial |
-en |
broken golden wooden |
-ful |
forgetful helpful ≠ unhelpful useful |
-less |
homeless hopeless useless helpless= someone who cannot help himself |
-ive |
active descriptive destructive communicative productive |
-ly |
daily weekly monthly yearly |
-y |
wealthy healthy cloudy rainy windy frosty snowy sunny foggy misty |
-ous |
cautious famous anxious nervous hazardous |
-ic |
classic Islamic touristic poetic |
-ish |
childish selfish foolish |
-ary |
necessary secondary imaginary revolutionary |
-ory |
explanatory contradictory satisfactory compulsory |
Suffix |
Adjectives of nationality |
-ish |
Britain British Turkey Turkish Spain Spanish Denmark Danish Finland Finnish Scotland Scottish Sweden Swedish England English |
-an |
Morocco Moroccan America American Angola Angolan |
-ian |
Canada Canadian Italy Italian Malaysia Malaysian Peru Peruvian |
-ese |
China Chinese Congo Congolese Lebanon Lebanese Benin Beninese Japan Japanese Vietnam Vietnamese |
-i |
Iraq Iraqi Pakistan Pakistani Kuwait Kuwaiti Oman Omani Qatar Qatari Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Bangladesh Bangladeshi Somalia Somali Yemen Yemeni |
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Suffix |
Examples of verbs |
-ate |
complicate dominate irritate |
-en |
harden soften shorten (strong; strengthen) (long; lengthen) |
-ify |
rectify beautify clarify identify |
-ise/-ize |
economise realise, industrialize (-ise is most common in
British English; -ize is most common in American English) |
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Suffix |
Examples of adverbs |
-ly |
calmly easily quickly |
N.B |
Adjectives ending in –e, omit (e)+ ly: possible; possibly gentle; gently Exceptions: sole; solely /ˈsəʊlli/ |
Irregular adverbs |
hard; hard fast; fast high; high good; well |
-ward(s) |
backwards forwards downwards homeward(s) upwards |
-wise |
anti-clockwise clockwise edgewise |