Professional Documents
Culture Documents
common
derivational affixes
There are many different derivational prefixes used to
form new verbs in English.
The most common derivational prefixes, in order of
frequency of occurrence,
are:
PREFFIX Example
• -Re REABSORB REABSORB, REARM, REBUILD. ETC
• -OVER
OVERBOOK OVERBOOK, OVERCOME, OVEREATUNBEND,
• -UN
• -MIS UNFOLD UNFOLD, UNPACK.
• -OUT MISHANDL
E
MISHANDLE, MISINFORM.