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most common suffixes
13 most common suffixes
Suffix | Meaning | Example |
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ation | action, resulting state | vacation, specialization, aggrivation |
ed | forms PAST TENSE | helped, baked, cried, looked |
est | comparative form - MOST | healthiest, latest, strongest |
ence, ance | process, action, state, quality | independence, resistance |
eer, er, or | a person who | engineer, doctor, player, reporter |
ian | related to, one that is | musician, pedestrian |
ine | relating to, made of | feline, masculine, feminine, magazine |
ive | like, belonging to, | relative, creative, positive, reflective |
less | without | limitless, loveless, fruitless |
ment | turns a verb into a noun | document, achievement, movement |
sion, tion | action or process, result from an action or process | position, invention, traction, envision, comprehension |
y, ly | resembling, like, has quality of; recurring at a particular time | lovely, hungry, teary, fluently |
able, ible | able, can do | lovable, breakable, visible |