NOUN SUFFIXES

Noun suffixes

INDEX

ADJECTIVE TO NOUN SUFFIXES

NOUN TO NOUN SUFFIXES

VERB TO NOUN SUFFIXES

ADJECTIVE TO NOUN SUFFIXES

ANCE: For adjectives ending in -ANT. State. important->importance tolerant->tolerance

ENCE: For adjectives ending in -ENT. Action or state. different->difference violent->violence

-Y/-TY/-ITY: Quality or state. honest->honesty loyal->loyalty mature->maturity

NESS: Quality or state. happy->happiness aware->awareness

DOM: Condition. wise->wisdom free->freedom

EE: The one who is. absent->absentee

NOUN TO NOUN SUFFIXES

• ISM: Belief/Action/Condition. capital->capitalism critic->criticism alcohol->alcoholism

• HOOD: State/Group of people. child->childhood priest->priesthood

• SHIP: Rank/State. lord->lordship friend->friendship

• IST: Person that does/believes. art->artist Marx->marxist

• MAN/WOMAN: Person who works with/in. post->postman camera->camerawoman

• ER: Person who works with. hat->hatter
• IAN: Expert in/Belonging to. mathematics->mathematician Christ->Christian
• DOM: Domain. king->kingdom

VERB TO NOUN SUFFIXES

• ANCE/ENCE: Action or state. ally->alliance depend->dependence
• ATION: Process or state. starve->starvation explain->explanation
• ION: Process or state. create->creation fuse->fusion
• ISM: Action of. plagiarise->plagiarism
• MENT: Action or state. refresh->refreshment develop->development
• URE/ATURE: Action or process. depart->departure

VERB TO NOUN SUFFIXES II

• ING: Action or result. build->building print->printing
• ER: Person or thing that ... drive->driver print->printer
• OR: Person or thing that ... act->actor calculate->calculator
• ANT: Person or thing that ... serve->servant cool->coolant

• ENT: Person that ... study->student
• EE: Person that ... refer->referee

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