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Suffix
used to make
meaning
example
-able,
-ible,
-ble
adjectives
possible to
-age
nouns
a process or state
shortage, storage
-al
adjectives
connected with
-ance,
-ancy,
nouns
-ant,
-ent
nouns
-ation
nouns
a state or action
-ee
nouns
a person to whom
something is done
employee, trainee
-en
verbs
to give something a
particular quality, to make to strengthen
something more
-ence,
-ency,
nouns
-er
nouns
-ese
adjectives
from a place
-ess
nouns
waitress, actress
-ful
adjectives
-hood
nouns
childhood, motherhood
-ian
nouns
-ical
adjectives from
nouns ending -y connected with
or -ics
-ify
verbs
-ish
-ist
adjectives
nouns
to produce a state or
quality
1.describing nationality or
English, Swedish, Polish
language
2.like something
babyish, foolish
3.rather, quite
something as a job
2.a person who believes in
something or belongs to a capitalist, pacifist, feminist
particular group
-ion
nouns
a state or process
-ive
adjectives
active, effective
actions producing a
particular state
to magnetize, to generalize, to
modernise, to standardise
-less
adjectives
hopeless, friendless
-like
adjectives
similar to
childlike
-ly
adverbs
in a particular way
-ment
nouns
-ness
nouns
a state or quality
-ology
nouns
-or
nouns
-ous
adjectives
-ship
nouns
showing status
-wards adverbs
in a particular direction
backwards, upwards
-wise
adverbs
in a particular way
anticlockwise
-y
adjectives