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Durie's Suffixes
Miss Durie's Suffixes
Question | Answer |
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-able, ible | Able to be, capable of being |
-ade | Action or process |
-age | Action or process |
-al, -ial | Of, like, relating to, suitable for |
-ance | Act, process, quality, state of being |
-ant | One who |
-ary | Of, like, relating to |
-ate | Characteristic of, to become |
-cle, -icle | Small |
-cy | Fact or state of being |
-dom | State or quality of of |
-ence | Act or state or being |
-ent | Doing, having, showing |
-er | One who, that which |
-ery | Place for, act, practice of |
-esque | Like |
-ess | Female |
-ful | Full of |
-ic | Relating to, characteristic of |
-ify | To make, to cause to be |
-ion | Act, condition, or result of |
-ish | Of or belonging to, characterized by |
-ism | Act, practice, or result of, example |
-ity | Condition, state of being |
-ive | Of, relating to, belonging to, tending to |
-ize | Make, cause to be, subject to |
-less | Without |
-let | Small |
-like | Like, characteristic of |
-logy | Study or theory of |
-ly | Every, like, characteristic of, resembling |
-ment | Action or process, state or quality of, product or thing |
-ness | State or quality of being |
-or | One who |
-ous | Having, full of, characterized by |
-ship | State or quality of being |
-some | Like, tending to be |
-tude | State or quality of being |
-y | Characterized by |