Everything about Suffix totally explained
In
grammar, a
suffix or
ending is an
affix which is placed at the end of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the
grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the
conjugation of verbs.
Suffixes can carry grammatical information (
inflectional suffixes), or lexical information (
derivational suffixes). An inflectional suffix is sometimes called a
desinence.
Some examples from English:
» Girls, where the suffix
-s marks the
plural;
He makes, where suffix
-s marks the third person
singular present tense;
» He closed, where the suffix
-d marks the
past tense.
A large number of endings are found in many
synthetic languages such as
Czech,
German,
Finnish,
Latin,
Hungarian,
Russian, etc.
Suffixes used in English frequently have
Greek,
French or
Latin origins.
Inflectional suffixes
Inflection changes grammatical properties of a word within its
syntactic category.
In the example:
» The weather forecaster said it would clear today, but it hasn't cleared at all.
the suffix
-ed inflects the
root-word
clear to indicate past tense.
Some inflectional suffixes in present day English:
Derivational suffixes
In the example:
» "The weather forecaster said it would be clear today, but I can't see clearly at all"
the suffix
-ly modifies the root-word
clear from an
adjective into an
adverb.
Derivation can also form a semantically distinct word within the same syntactic category.
In this example:
» "The weather forecaster said it would be a clear day today, but I think it's more like clearish!"
the suffix
-ish modifies the root-word
clear, changing its meaning to "clear, but not very clear".
Some derivational suffixes in present day English:
-ize/-ise
-fy
-ly
-able
-ful
-ness
-ism
-ment
-ist
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