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Advanced English - Suffixes PDF
Advanced English - Suffixes PDF
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used with some nouns to make adjectives meaning full of used with nouns and verbs to make nouns meaning
something, usually something unpleasant or harmful someone who likes something a lot or who
A crime-ridden society is unable to stop doing something
A guilt-ridden expression Shopaholic (=someone who loves shopping)
It is a superstition-ridden community. Chocaholic (=someone who loves chocolate)
Workaholic (=someone who loves to work)
(transmitido por /von etwas übertragen) ( aspectos / doble, triple…/ zwei, drei…Seiten /
used with some nouns to make adjectives describing how Zweifach, dreifach, vierfach...)
something is carried from one person or place to another used with numbers to make adjectives and adverbs describing
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease. how much something increases.
Air-borne pollution A fourfold increase (=an increase in an amount that makes
Cholera is a water-borne disease caused by the it four times larger than before)
bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which is typically ingested The problems are twofold - firstly, economic, and
by drinking contaminated water. secondly, political.