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-ary suffix
Meaning: relates to something, relating to quality or place)
Examples: dietary, veterinary, planetary
-ic suffix
Meaning: pertaining or relating to)
Examples: fantastic, organic, scenic
-ive suffix
Meaning: performing or tending toward, nature of
Examples: cooperative, sensitive, supportive
-less suffix
Meaning: without, lacking, unable to act
Examples: powerless, friendless, useless
-y suffix
Meaning: characterized by, tending to
Examples: rainy, funny, dirty
-like suffix
Meaning: like
Examples: lifelike, warlike, childlike
-ish suffix
Meaning: origin, nature
Examples: selfish, sheepish, bookish
-ile suffix
Meaning: tending to, capable of
Examples: gentile, senile, fragile
-en
Meaning: To become
Examples: Shorten, thicken, widen
-ify
Meaning: To make something, to become
Examples: Clarify, identify, modify, simplify
-ise
Meaning: To do something, to become
Examples: Criticise, realise, modernise, optimise