List of Suffixes!!! In this lesson, we learn the List of Suffixes in English with meaning for ESL Learners.
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List of Suffixes with their Meaning
Below is a list of Suffixes plus meaning and examples you should know…
Noun Suffixes
1. -er
- Meaning: A person
- Words: helper, teacher, preacher, dancer (Jobs Vocabulary)
2. -or
- Meaning: A person who is something
- Words: distributor, investigator, translator, conductor
3. -ment
- Meaning: The action or result of
- Words: movement, retirement, abandonment, establishment
4. -ness
- Meaning: A state or quality
- Words: fondness, awareness, kindness, darkness
5. –ion
- Meaning: A process, state or result
- Words: decoration, celebration, opinion, decision, revision
6. –age
- Meaning: A process, action or result
- Words: wreckage, breakage, passage
7. –ance
- Meaning: An action or state
- Words: importance, hindrance, tenancy
8. -ee
- Meaning: A person
- Words: referee, assignee, grantee, lessee
9. -ence
- Meaning: An action or state
- Words: difference
10. –ery
- Meaning: A type or place of work
- Words: bakery
11. –ess
- Meaning: Makes a feminine form
- Words: waitress
12. -ism
- Meaning: A belief or condition
- Words: Judaism
Adjective Suffixes
1. -able
- Meaning: Able to be
- Words: inflatable, preventable, adaptable, predictable
2. -ant
- Meaning: Inclined to or tending to
- Words: vigilant, defiant, brilliant, reliant
3. -ful
- Meaning: Full of or notable of
- Words: grateful, beautiful (Pretty Synonyms), wonderful, fanciful
4. -ous
- Meaning: Having qualities of
- Words: joyous, humorous, fabulous
5. -less
- Meaning: Without
- Words: hopeless, faultless, fearless, restless
6. -ible
- Meaning: Ability
- Words: flexible, accessible, collapsible, credible
7. -like
- Meaning: Similar to, like
- Words: lifelike
8. -some
- Meaning: A tendency to
- Words: quarrelsome
9. -ish
- Meaning: A little
- Words: greenish
Verb Suffixes
1. -en
- Meaning: Become
- Words: soften, fasten, lengthen, strengthen
2. –ing
- Meaning: Verb form/present participle of an action
- Words: laughing, swimming, driving, writing
Adverb Suffixes
1. -ly
- Meaning: In a manner
- Words: quickly
2. -ward
- Meaning: Shows direction
- Words: forward
3. -ways
- Meaning: Shows direction
- Words: sideways
List of Suffixes in English | Infographic
