| Suffix | used to make | meaning | example |
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| -able, -ible, -ble | adjectives | possible to | acceptable, noticable, convertible, divisible, irresistible |
| -age | nouns | a process or state | shortage, storage |
| -al | adjectives | connected with | experimental, accidental, environmental |
| -ance, -ancy, | nouns | an action, process or state | appearance, performance, pregnancy, constancy |
| -ant, -ent | nouns | a person who does it | assistant, immigrant, student |
| -ation | nouns | a state or action | examination, imagination, organization |
| -ee | nouns | a person to whom something is done | employee, trainee |
| -en | verbs | to give something a particular quality, to make something more | to strengthen |
| -ence, -ency, | nouns | an action, process or state | coincidence, patience, potency, presidency |
| -er | nouns | a person who does something | rider, painter, baker, builder, teacher |
| -ese | adjectives | from a place | Japanese, Chinese, Viennese |
| -ess | nouns | a woman who does somthing as a job | waitress, actress |
| -ful | adjectives | having a particular quality | beautiful, helpful, useful, thankful |
| -hood | nouns | a state, often during a particular period of time | childhood, motherhood |
| -ian | nouns | a person who does something as a job or hobby | historian, comedian, politician |
| -ical | adjectives from nouns ending -y or -ics | connected with | economical, mathematical, physical |
| -ify | verbs | to produce a state or quality | beautify, simplify, purify |
| -ish | adjectives |
1. describing nationality or language | English, Swedish, Polish |
| 2. like something | babyish, foolish |
| 3. rather, quite | longish, youngish, brownish |
| -ist | nouns |
1. a person who has studied something or does something as a job | scientist, typist |
| 2. a person who believes in something or belongs to a particular group | capitalist, pacifist, feminist |
| -ion | nouns | a state or process | action, connection, exhibition |
| -ive | adjectives | to be able to, having a particular quality | active, effective |
| -ize, -ise | verbs | actions producing a particular state | to magnetize, to generalize, to modernise, to standardise |
| -less | adjectives | not having something | hopeless, friendless |
| -like | adjectives | similar to | childlike |
| -ly | adverbs | in a particular way | badly, beautifully, completely |
| -ment | nouns | a state, action or quality | development, arrangement, excitement, achievement |
| -ness | nouns | a state or quality | kindness, sadness, happiness, weakness |
| -ology | nouns | the study of a subject | biology, psychology, zoology |
| -or | nouns | a person who does something, often as a job | actor, conductor, sailor |
| -ous | adjectives | having a particular quality | dangerous, generous, religous |
| -ship | nouns | showing status | membership, citizenship, friendship |
| -wards | adverbs | in a particular direction | backwards, upwards |
| -wise | adverbs | in a particular way | anticlockwise |
| -y | adjectives | having the quality of the thing metioned | cloudy, rainy, fatty, thirsty, greeny |
