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Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives:

Common Suffixes
and Their Meanings
Generate examples of words that can be created using the suffix provided.
Noun Suffixes These suffixes change other parts of speech into nouns.

suffix meaning examples

-acy state or quality privacy, accuracy, supremacy, legacy

-al act or process of refusal, approval, arrival, professional

-ance, maintenance, intelligence, arrogance, tolerance

state or quality of
-ence
place or
-dom state of being freedom, kingdom, boredom, stardom

-er,
one who trainer, teacher, doctor, lawyer
-or

-ism doctrine, belief communism, capitalism, racism, journalism

-ist one who chemist, artist, pesimist, optimist

-ity, activity, reality, capacity, territoriality

quality of
-it

-ment condition of argument, statement, placement, understandment

-ness state of being heaviness, loneliness, sickness, abisiveness

-ship position held fellowship, relationship, championship, leadership

-sion, state of being transition, position, description, acquisition

-tion

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Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives:

Common Suffixes
and Their Meanings
Generate examples of words that can be created using the suffix provided.
Verb Suffixes These suffixes change other parts of speech into verbs.

suffix meaning examples

-ate become eradicate, desperate, compassionate, inappropiate

-en become enlighten, stregthen, lengthen, straighten

-ify, terrify,
make or become clarify, satisfy, unify
-fy
-ize,
become civilize, mersmerize, apologize, jeopardize
-ise

Bonus! Use the space to illustrate one of the example words you came up with!

He's mermerized

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Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives:

Common Suffixes
and Their Meanings
Generate examples of words that can be created using the suffix provided.
Adjective Suffixes These suffixes change other parts of speech into verbs.

suffix meaning examples

-able, capable of being edible, disable, relatable, enable

-ible

-al pertaining to regional, national, colonial, personal

-esque reminiscent of picturesque, grotesque, burlesque, arabesque

-ful notable for fanciful, peaceful, playful, joyful

-ic, pertaining to musical, physical, political, medical

-ical
-ious,
characterized by nutritious, ambitious, curious, mysterious,
-ous

-ish having the quality of babyish, blueish, childish, greenish

-ive having the nature of creative, competitive, perspective, progressive

-less without endless, speechless, reckless, homeless

-y characterized by sleazy, lazy, crazy, dizzy

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