User:Dan Polansky/Suffix

English

All on English suffixes including pseudo-suffixes:

Noun suffix

Suffixes for qualities alias properties or states or conditions:

• -ness: goodness, darkness, kindness, brightness, completeness (tendency: Germanic roots?, but "completeness")
• -ity: parametricity, generosity, acidity, subjectivity, additivity, separability, complexity, nominality (tendency: Latin roots?)
  • -ability (from -able): separability, repairability, enjoyability, feasibility, possibility, doability (rare: feasibleness, common: enjoyableness)
  • -icity (from -ic): toxicity, parametricity, organicity, algorithmicity
  • -ivity (from -ive): subjectivity, additivity, commutativity (rare: commutativeness)
  • -ality (from -al): nominality, radicality, reality (rare: realness)
• -hood: likelihood, falsehood (mostly used for noun-derived qualities such as objecthood and parenthood)
• -ry: bravery
• -cy: normalcy
• -ance: resistance, ignorance, capacitance
• -ence: coherence, persistence, consistence, complacence, transparence, excellence, diligence, intelligence, magnificence, innocence
• -ency: coherency, persistency, consistency, complacency, transparency, solvency

Suffixes for action:

• -al: arousal, arrival, denial, proposal, reversal, removal
• -ion: transformation, reformation, deformation, stagnation, inflation

Suffixes for active person:

• -or: actor, director, aviator
• -ator (Latin-based: cur-o --> cur-ator): administrator, annihilator, curator, orator, procurator
• -er: worker, fisher, manager, programmer, crimper, interviewer
• -eer: auctioneer, charioteer, mutineer, puppeteer
• -ant: servant, consultant, defendant

Suffixes for active thing:

• -or: tractor, rotor, motor
• -ator (Latin-based: cur-o --> cur-ator): respirator, ventilator
• -ant: reactant

Suffixes for passive person:

• -ee: employee, examinee, interviewee, nominee

Adjective suffix

• -ic: parametric, geometric, algorithmic, nomadic, acidic, semantic, alphabetic
• -ical: parametrical, geometrical, mythical, semantical, alphabetical
• -al: adjectival, phrasal, lineal, basal, cranial, nominal
• -ial: adverbial, commercial, spatial, tangential
• -ian: Aesopian, Albanian, Babylonian, Canadian, Russian
• -ian: Aristotelian, Baconian, Hegelian, Kuhnian, Popperian, Wittgensteinian
• -ish: girlish, boyish
• -ish: greenish, grayish, reddish
• -ish: Danish, British, English, Spanish
• -ive: administrative, conclusive, native, diminutive, negative, positive
• -ous: odorous, courageous, joyous, poisonous, riotous
• -able: enjoyable, repairable, confirmable, refutable
• -less: fearless, hopeless, restless
• -ient: obedient, subservient, lenient
• -ent: persistent, resistent, consistent, affluent

Verb suffix

• -ate: marinate, abbreviate, truncate
• -fy: classify, horrify, intensify, liquefy, purify, satisfy, solidify, stupefy
• -ize: crystalize, materialize, formalize
• -lyze: analyze, paralyze, catalyze

See also

• Appendix:English suffixes
• Category:English suffixes

Czech

Noun suffix

Suffixes for qualities alias properties or states or conditions:

• -ost: laskavost, jasnost (but also "jas"), úplnost, štědrost, hmotnost
• -ství: bratrství, rodičovství, mistrovství
  • -ovství: rodičovství, mistrovství

Other suffixes:

• -stvo: lidstvo, bratrstvo, mužstvo

Adjective suffix

• -ký: řecký, německý, ruský (attributive suffix)
• -ský: britský, pražský, mořský, ženský (attributive suffix)
  • -ovský: mistrovský, rodičovský
• -cký: (such as what?)

German

All on German suffixes including pseudo-suffixes:

Noun suffix

Suffixes for qualities alias properties or states or conditions:

• -heit: Frechheit, Schönheit, Dummheit
• -keit: Wirksamkeit, Langsamkeit, Müdigkeit

See also

• Category:German suffixes