常见后缀及其含义
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常见后缀及其含义
后缀是一种重要的构词法,通过后缀我们常常可以判断出一个词的词性。下面分四类讲解一些常见的后缀及其含义:
一、名词后缀
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1. -ster, -eer , -er(or)意为:参与某种职业或活动的人(the person engaged in an occupation or activity)例词:gamester, gangster, songster, engineer, profiteer,
mountaineer, auctioneer, driver, teacher, director, actor, professor
2. -let意为:小或者不重要的东西(small,unimportant things)例词:booklet, leaflet, starlet
3. -ette意为:1)小的东西(small things)例词:cigarette 2)假的东西(imitation)例词:leatherette 3)女性(female)例词:usherette
4. -ess意为:女性(female)例词:actress, poetess, hostess, paintress
5. -hood意为:状态,时期(status, etc.)例词:boyhood, childhood, manhood
6. -ship意为:身份,状态,技能,资格,品质等(skill, state, condition, status, quality, etc.)例词:leadership, friendship, membership, lectureship, sportsmanship
7. -ful意为:量(the amount which noun contains)例词:cupful, handful, mouthful, spoonful
8. -tion,-ion意为:1)状态,动作等(state, action, etc.)例词:action, oppression, possession, education, starvation 2)机构等(institution, etc.)例词:organization, foundation
9. -ment意为:状态,行为,产物,手段等(state, behavior, etc.)例词:movement, enslavement, pavement
10.-al意为:……的动作(action)例词:arrival, refusal, revival, recital, removal
11. -age意为:动作,程度,数量等(action, extent, amount, etc.)例词:wastage, coverage, acreage, shrinkage, breakage, hostage
12.-ness, -ity(ty)意为:状态,性质,程度等(state, quality, etc.)例词:happiness, selfishness, kindness, rapidity, activity, faculty
13. -ism意为:行为,特征,主义,学说等(behavior, doctrine, etc.)例词:organism, idealism, impressionism, absenteeism, racism
二、动词后缀
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1.-ify意为:使成为,使……化(to make into, to make or become)例词:beautify, diversify, simplify
2.-ize,-en意为:使处于……状态,使……化(to make or become, to make into)例词:modernize, popularize, legalize, hospitalize, symbolize, ripen, widen, threaten
3.-ate意为:产生,使成为(to make or become)例词:triangulate, hydrogenate, validate, differentiate
三、形容词后缀:
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1.-ful意为:充满……的,有……特性的(full of, having, giving, etc.)例词:pitiful, hopeful, helpful, forgetful, thankful, fearful
2. -less意为:没有,无,不(without, not giving)例词:speechless, harmless, hopeless
3. -ly意为:有……特性的(having the quality of )例词:beastly, manly, brotherly, friendly
4. -like意为:像……的(like)例词:childlike, doglike, homelike
5. -y,-ish意为:有……的,像……一般的(somewhat like)例词:meaty, sandy, silky, hairy, leafy, watery, foolish, girlish, blackish
6. -some意为:引起……的,有……品质的(causing, having the quality of)例词:troublesome, burdensome, wholesome, tiresome, bothersome
7. -able (-ible)意为:能……的,可以……的(able to be, capable)例词:changeable, readable, drinkable, comfortable, expansible, convincible
8. -ed意为:有……的(having, etc.)例词:wooded, pointed, moneyed
9. -al意为:有……特性的,……的(of nature of, typical of)例词:cultural, personal, regional, musical
10. -ary (-ory)意为:属于……的,与……有关的(belonging to, connected with)例词:revolutionary, imaginary, budgetary,contradictory