تعريف

Prefixes: are a group of letters that come at the beginning of a word and they change its meaning :

مثال

happy / unhappy war / postwar

تعريف

Suffixes: are a group of letters that come at the end of a word and they change its category ( verb – noun – adjective – adverb….)   :

مثال

child / childish comfort / comfortable lazy /lazily

Generally speaking there are three types of suffixes

Verb suffixes

are suffixes added to adjectives or nouns to make verbs . dark (adjective) => darken centre (noun) => centralize

Noun suffixes

are suffixes added to verbsadjectives, or nouns to make nouns. manage (verb) => management serious ( adjective) => seriousness friend (noun) => friendship

adjectival suffixes

are suffixes added to nouns, adjectives , or verbs to make adjectives . beauty (noun) => beautiful economic (adjective) =>economical excite (verb) => excited

انتباه

NOTE : a word without any prefix or suffix is called the root

List of Common prefixes

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