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Word Formation: Suffixes - 1st Year Bac

Teacher Atik

22 Aug, 2025

Word Formation: Suffixes

Word Formation

Master the art of building words with suffixes

What are Suffixes?

Suffixes are word parts added to the end of a base word to create new words with different meanings or grammatical functions.

Common Suffixes

-ness

state or quality

happy → happiness

-ful

full of

care → careful

-less

without

hope → hopeless

-er/-or

person who does

teach → teacher

-tion/-sion

act or process

create → creation

-ly

in a manner

quick → quickly

-hood

state or condition

child → childhood

-ment

result or action

enjoy → enjoyment

-able/-ible

capable of being

read → readable

-ish

having qualities of

child → childish

-ship

state or skill

friend → friendship

-ward

in direction of

back → backward

Interactive Practice

Question 1: Add a suffix to kind to make it mean "the quality of being kind"

Question 2: Add a suffix to paint to make it mean "a person who paints"

Question 3: Add a suffix to fear to make it mean "without fear"

Question 4: Add a suffix to slow to make it mean "in a slow manner"

Question 5: Add a suffix to brother to make it mean "the state of being brothers"

Question 6: Add a suffix to agree to make it mean "the result of agreeing"

Question 7: Add a suffix to break to make it mean "capable of being broken"

Question 8: Add a suffix to self to make it mean "having qualities of being self-centered"

Question 9: Add a suffix to leader to make it mean "the skill or state of being a leader"

Question 10: Add a suffix to home to make it mean "in the direction of home"

Question 11: Add a suffix to mother to make it mean "the state of being a mother"

Question 12: Add a suffix to establish to make it mean "the act of establishing"

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