Suffix

Suffix is a word part added to the end of a word to indicate its part of speech

• suffixes are "morphemes" (the smallest constituent part of a word)
• most words that are changed by a suffix start as a verb or a noun, but are frequently the same as an adjective
• note that verb conjugations may also "inflect" with a different ending
  • ex. verb "to address"
    • present participle "addressing"
    • past participle "addressed"
  • -ing and -ed are not suffixes

Verb	Noun	Adjective	Adverb
address ("to address")	address (an address) addressee	n/a	n/a
object("to object")	object("an object") objection objective	objectifiable objectionable	objectively
perfect ("to perfect")	perfecter perfectibility perfection perfectionist	perfect perfectible perfective	perfectly

Suffix endings parts of speech

Verb	Noun	Adjective	Adverb
-ate, -en, -fy, -ify, ise, -ize	-al, -ance, -ant, -ard, -dom, -er, -ess, -hood, -ics, -ism, -ion, -ite, -ive, -kind, -like, -logy, -lore, -ment, -ness, -old, -ology -or, -ship, -sion, -tion -um	-able, -al, -ance, -ant, -ence -ed, -esque, -er, -ful, -ible, -ic, -ile, -ish, -ist, -ive, -less, -old, -ous, -y	-est, -ly, -ward, -wise irregular example: fast instead of fastly