Prefixes Word Suffixes Word E.g.
un- Adj Adj. (antonim) comfortable - uncomfortable
non- Adj Adj. (antonim) essential - non-essensial
in- Adj / N Adj / N (antonim) ability - inability
direct - indirect
il- L… legal - illegal
ir- R… regular - irregular
im- M/P… possible - impossible
mobile - immobile
un- V V (antonim) to load - to unload
dis- V / Adj V / Adj (antonim, negation) to like - to dislike
honest - dishonest
re- V V (to do s-th again) to read -to reread
mis- V V (to do s-th wrongly) to hear - to mishear
over- V V ( to do s-th excessively) to pay - to overpay
under- V V (to do s-th not sufficiently) to pay - to underpay
pre- Adj /N Adj ( before) historical - pre-historical
post Adj /N Adj ( after) war - post-war
anti- Adj /N Adj /N (against) cyclone - anti-cyclone
counter V /N V /N (against) to act - to counteract
action - counteraction
co- N N ( together) author - co-author
inter- Adj /N Adj /N (among) action - inter-action
ex- N N(former) husband - ex-husband
sub- N N (= "под-") group - subgroup
ultra- Adj Adj (super) short - ultra-short
en- N / Adj V large - enlarge
V -er N (profession) to buy - buyer
-or to direct - director
V -ee N (person who action is to employ - employee
directed to)
N -ist N psychologist
(person in political
and scientifical area)
N -ism N materialism
(political and scientifical area)
N -ish N ( nationality) Poland - Polish
-ese Japan - Japanese
-ian Italy - Italian
V -age N to marry - marriage
-ion to collect - collection
tion to direct - direction
-ation to combine - combination
-sion to submit - submission
-ssion
-ment to agree - agreement
-ure to press - prssure
-al to arrive - arrival
Adj -ant -ance N important - importance
Adj. -ent -ence N different - difference
Adj -ness N cold - coldness
Adj -ish Adj (shade) green - greenish
Adj -dom N (abstractive) free - freedom
N -ship N (abstractive) friend - friendship
N -hood N (period) child - childhood
V -able Adj (to show ability to eat - eatable
to do s-th)
-ible to convert - convertible
V -ante Adj to differ - different
-ent to resist - resistant
-ive to act - active
N -al Adj centre - central
N -ful Adj (to have some quality) beauty - beautiful
N -less Adj (without s-th) hope - hopeless
-ous danger - dangerous
-y sun - sunny
Adj ly Adv beautiful-beautifully
exaptions: good-well
hard-hard
fast-fast
early-early, late-late