Suffixes Part-of-speech classification of suffixes

Adjective – forming suffixes.

Noun forming suffixes

Verb-forming suffixes

Adverb-forming suffixes

Numeral-forming suffixes

-ed barbed

-en golden

-ful careful

-less careless

-like childlike

-y

hearty

-age bondage

-dom serfdom

- eer / ier

-ess waitress

-y daddy

-ship friendship

-ism heroism

-ist violinist

-hood childhood

-ize

computerize

-ify

mummify

-en

shorten

-ly

singly

-ward

tableward

-wise

jet-wise

-teen

sixteen

-ty

seventy

-fold

twofold

The agent of action

-er experimenter

-ist taxist

-ent student

-ee examinee

nationality

--ian Russian

-ese Japanese

-ish English

collectivity

-dom officialdom

-ry peasantry

-ship leadership

-ati literati (well educated people who are interested in literature)

diminutiveness

-ie horsie

-let booklet

-y hanky

-ock hillock

-ette kitchenette

quality

-ness brightness

-ity peculiarity

feminine gender

-ess actress

-ine heroine

-ette cosmonette

abstract notion

-hood childhood

-ness politeness

-ence/ance tolerance

derogatory meaning

-ard drunkard

-ster gangster

-ling underling (a person who is inferior in rank or status to someone else and takes orders from them)

-ton simpleton

Suffixes added to verbal stems

Suffixes added to noun stems

Suffixes added to adjective stems

-er commuter

-ing suffering

-able eatable

-ment involvement

-ation computerization

-less tasteless

-ful beautiful

-ism communism

-ster pollster

-ish childish

-en weaken

-ly weekly

-ish longish

-ness clannishness

Prefixes of negative meaning

Prefixes denoting repetition

Prefixes denoting time, space, degree relations

un- ungrateful

in- incorrect

dis- disadvantage

non- non-person, non-book, non-thing

de- decolonize

re- rewrite

dis- disconnect

un- unpack

inter- interplanetary

pre- pre-election

post- post-position

over- overdrugging

super- superstructure

hyper- hypertension

ex- ex-student