Certificate (B2).

Word formation

NOUN SUFFIXES

Suffix Meaning Example

Professions or things that Write – writer
-ER/-OR
do a job Work – worker
Attend – attendant
-ANT/ENT Professions
Preside – president
People who do or who Employ – employer
-ER/EE
experience something Employ – employee
-(T)ION - Inform – information
-MENT - Agree – agreement
-AL - Arrive – arrival
Insure – insurance
-ANCE/-ENCE -
Prefer -preference
-(S)ION - Confuse – confusion
-AGE - Pass – passage
-ING - Bless – blessing
-ERY Place Bake – bakery
-TH - Grow – growth
-NESS Quality/condition Good - goodness
Ideal – idealist
People / ideology or Ideal – idealism
-IST/-ISM
activity Journal – journalist
Journal – journalism
-ITY - Flexible – flexibility
-Y - Private – privacy
-TY - Safe – safety
-STER - Hip-hipster
-DOM - Free – freedom
-(AR)IAN - Vegetable – vegetarian
-EER Person Engine – engineer
-HOOD - Child - childhood
-SHIP - Friend - friendship
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ADJECTIVES SUFFIXES

Suffixes Meaning Example

-ABLE, -IBLE Ability Enjoy - Enjoyable
-AL, -IAL Relating to Music - musical
-FUL Full Play - Playful
Having the nature of
-IC, -ICAL Romance - Romantic
caused by
Origin
Britain - British
-ISH Nature
Child - childish
The same feature as
-IVE, -ATIVE Causing effect Create - Creative
Without
-LESS End - endless
Lacking
Quality Adventure – adventurous
-EOUS, -IOUS, -OUS
Nature Ambition – ambitious
-Y Like Angry
-ENT / -ANT Performing agent Obedient
-ED - Amuse – amused
-ING - Surprise - surprising

VERB SUFFIXES
Suffix Meaning Example
Past-tense version of a
-ED Laugh - Laughed
verb
-EN Become Strength – strengthen
-IZE/ISE To cause or to become Advertise
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ADVERB SUFFIXES

Suffix Meaning Example

In what manner something
-LY Brave – bravely
is being done
-WARD In a certain direction Back - backwards
-WISE In relation to Clockwise

PREFIXES

Prefixes Meaning Example

IM- Opposite Impossible
UN- Opposite/negation Unable
PRE- Time (before) Pre-war
EXTRA- Place (outside of/beyond) Extra-terrestrial
OVER- Manner (too much) Overthinking
ANTI- Against/opposed to Anti-government
AUTO- Self Autobiography
DIS- Reverse or remove Disagree
Illegal, Impossible,
IL-, IM-, IN-, IR- Not
insecure, irregular
INTER- Between Interactive
MIS- Incorrectly, badly Misaligned
POST- After Post-war
PRO - In favour of Pro-communist
RE- Again Reconsider
SUB - Under, below Submarine
SUPER- Above, beyond Super-hero
TELE- At a distance Television
TRANS- Across Transatlantic
UN- Remove, reverse, not Unhappy
UNDER- Less than, beneath Undercook