Noun Forms

From Verbs, Adjectives & Nouns

 
  SUFFIX VERB – NOUN VERB – NOUN VERB – NOUN
 
-AL    condition, arrive –arrival deny –denial refuse – refusal
quality approve – approval propose –proposal dismiss – dismissal

-ANCE / attend –attendance prefer – preference refer – reference

ENCE     action, accept –acceptance insure – insurance exist –existence
state, condition or
quality

-ATION / educate – education eliminate – elimination combine – combination

TION  action or inform – information declare – declaration immigrate – immigration
resulting state

-SION  action or confuse – confusion divide –division impress – impression

resulting state  decide – decision revise – revision profess–profession

-URE   action or depart – departure fail – failure press – pressure

resulting state erase – erasure enclose – enclosure legislate – legislature

-MENT  state, act, agree– agreement employ – employment punish – punishment

condition pay – payment argue – argument govern – government

-AGE  action, state, break – breakage pack – package bag– baggage

process post – postage pass – passage marry – marriage

-ING action, state, bless – blessing write – writing end –ending

process land – landing feed – feeding seat – seating

-ERY location, cream – creamery bake –bakery brew – brewery

collective, behavior slave (n.) – slavery brave (adj.) – bravery machine (n.) – machinery
condition
Common Suffixes — verbs to nouns
Nominalization – the forming of words from other categories , verbs and nouns, by suffixation. (CaGEL 1706)
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Common Suffixes — adjectives to nouns
SUFFIX VERB – NOUN VERB – NOUN VERB – NOUN

-NESS state, quality, happy – happiness kind – kindness  quiet – quietness

 condition useful – usefulness truthful – truthfulness sleepy – sleepiness

-ITY  state or condition active – activity curious – curiosity real – reality

stupid – stupidity mobile – mobility tranquil – tranquility

-ISM  state, practice  ideal – idealism human – humanism conservative – conservatism

colonial – colonialism imperial – imperialism favorite – favoritism

-TH  condition  wide – width long – length born (v.) – birth

dead – death foul – filth grow (v.) – growth

-Y  condition  private – privacy honest – honesty modest – modesty

difficult – difficulty jealous – jealousy  

-TY  condition  safe – safety certain – certainty loyal – loyalty

cruel – cruelty subtle – subtlety admiral (n.) – admiralty

 
Common Suffixes — nouns for people
SUFFIX NOUN – PERSONAL NOUN NOUN – PERSONAL NOUN NOUN – PERSONAL NOUN

-ANT / ENT person / attend– attendant inform – informant preside – president

instrument assist – assistant correspond – correspondent reside – resident

-ARIAN  holders of a vegetable – vegetarian human – humanitarian parliament – parliamentarian

paricular doctrine discipline – disciplinarian sect – sectarian

-EE  person / appoint – appointee divorce – divorcée refuge – refugee

instrument trust – trustee license – licensee pay – payee

-ER / OR  person who teach– teacher direct – director employ – employer

acts paint – painter manage – manager govern – governor

-EER  person engine –engineer musket – museketeer auction – auctioneer

concerned with profit – profiteer racket – racketeer mountain – mountaineer
 -IST  person who ideal – idealist human – humanist left – leftist
practices  colonial – colonialist imperial – imperialist extreme – extremist

-STER  person young – youngster game – gamester gang – gangster

connected to old – oldster spin¹ – spinster mob – mobster

Common Suffixes — nouns to nouns

SUFFIX NOUN – NOUN NOUN – NOUN NOUN – NOUN

-SHIP state, censor – censorship scholar – scholarship workman – workmanship

condition, skill, office, partner – partnership dealer – dealership apprentice – apprenticeship
associated with

-DOM  state, star – stardom bore – boredom free – freedom

condition, dignity, fan – fandom wise – wisdom king – kingdom
office

-HOOD  state, brother – brotherhood neighbor – neighborhood live – livelihood

collective widow – widowhood child – childhood false – falsehood