Word formation
Affixes
Nominal prefixes: a-, an-, bi-, co-, contra-, counter-, di-, dis-, ex-, extra-, fore-, in-,
im-, il-, ir-, inter-, macro-, mal-, mini-, mono-, multi-, non-, out-, pply-, pre-,
pseudo, re-, semi-, sub-, super-, trans-, tri-, ultra-, un-, under-
Verbal prefixes: be-, co-, contra-, de-, dis-, en-, em-, fore-, hyper-, inter-, mal-, mis-
, out-, over-, post-, pre-, re-, sub-, super-, sur-, trans-, un-, under-
Adjectival prefixes: a-, anti-, bi-, di-, contra-, counter-, dis-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, inter-,
intra-, mal-, mono-, multi-, non-, over-, poly-, post-, pre-, pro-, pseudo-, semi-,
super-, sub-, trans-, tri-, ultra-, un-, uni-
Nominal suffixes: -age, -al, -ance, -ence, -ation, -ition, -tion, -sion, -ion, -dom, -ee, -
ent, -ant, -er, -or, -ery, -ing, -ism, -ity, -ment, -ness, -ure, -y, -cy, -ie, -ship, -hood, -
ette, -ess, -ese, -ian
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Verbal suffixes -ate, -en, -ify, -ise
Adjectival suffixes -ian, -an, -ese-, -esque, -i, -ish, -ite, -able, -ible, -al, -ar, -ial, -
ual, -ant, -ent, -ary, -ate, -ed, -en, -ic, -atic, -ific, -ical, -istic, -ine, -ing, -ive, -ative, -
ish, -like, -ful, -less, -ly, -ory, -atory, -ous, -eous, -ious, -atious, -some, -y
Adverbial suffixes: -ly, -wise, -wards
Examples
Able ability, disabled, unable
Act action, (in)active, actor
Add addiction
Admire admiration
Advice advise, adviser
Afford affordable
Agree agreement, disagree
Art artist, artistic
Assist assistant, assistance
Athlete athletic, athletics
Attract attractive, attraction
Back backwards
Bake baker, bakery
Beg beggar
Begin beginner, beginning
Belief believe, (un)believable
Bend bent
Boil boiler, boiling
Bore boring, bored
Boss bossy
Brave bravery
Break broken, (un)breakable
Care careful, careless
Centre central
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Certain certainty
Chemist chemical, chemistry
Child children, childhood, childish
Choose chosen, choice
Circle circular
Collect collection, collector
Comedy comedian
Comfort (un)comfortable
Communicate communication
Compare comparison
Compose composer, composition
Conclude conclusion
Confident confidence
Confuse confused, confusion
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Connect connection, disconnect
Cook cooker, cookery
Correct correction, incorrect
Courage courageous
Danger dangerous
Decide decision
Deep deeply, depth
Deliver delivery
Depart departure
Destroy destruction, destructive
Direct direction, indirect
Divide division
Drive driver
Educate education
Elect election
Emotion emotional
Employ (un)employment, employer, employee, unemployed
Energy energetic
Entertain entertainment
Equal equality, unequal
Examine exam, examination, examiner
Except exception
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Excite excitement, exciting, excited
Exhibit exhibition
Expense (in)expensive
Express expression, expressive
Fame famous
Fascinate fascinating, fascination
Feel feeling, feelings
Fly flight
Fog foggy
Forgive forgiveness
Free freedom
Garden gardener, gardening
Hand handful, handle
Happy (un)happiness, unhappy
Hate hatred
Help helpful, unhelpful, helpless
Hero heroic, heroine
History historic, historian
Honest dishonest, honesty
Identify identity, identical
Imagine imagination, imaginative
Inform informative, information
Instruct instruction, instructor
Intelligent intelligence
Intend intention, intentional
Introduce introduction
Invade invasion, invader
Jog jogging, jogger
Judge judgement
Lie liar, lying
Life live, alive
Long length
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Luck lucky, unlucky, luckily, unluckily
Measure measurement
Medicine medical
Memory memorise, memorial
Music musical, musician
Nation nationality, national, international
Nature natural, naturally
Noise noisy, noisily
Occupy occupation
Office officer, official, unofficial
Pain painful, painless
Peace peaceful, peacefully
Perfect perfection, imperfect
Person personal, personality
Play player, playful
Pollute pollution, polluted
Predict prediction, (un)predictable
Prefer preference, preferable
Prepare preparation
Prison prisoner
Recommend recommendation
Reduce reduction
Refer reference
Refuse refusal
Relate relative, relation, relationship
Retire retired, retirement
Safe save, unsafe, safety
Sail sailing, sailor
Science scientist
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Secret secretly, secrecy
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Sense sensible, sensitive
Serve service, servant
Shoot shot, shooting
Silent silence, silently
Simple simplify, simplicity
Sing song, singer, singing
Solve solution
Speak spoken, speaker, speech
Succeed success, (un)successful
Suggest suggestion
Sympathy sympathise, sympathetic
Translate translation, translator
Travel traveller
True truth, untrue, truthful
Use useful, useless, usage
Value valuable
Visit visitor
Weigh weight
