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 This article is about the linguistic term. For other uses, see Suffix (disambiguation).
In grammar, a suffix (also postfix, ending) is an affix which is placed at the end of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes), or lexical information (derivational suffixes). An inflectional suffix is sometimes called a desinence.[1] Some examples from English:
A large number of endings are found in many synthetic languages such as Czech, German, Finnish, Latin, Hungarian, Russian, etc. Suffixes used in English frequently have Greek, French or Latin origins.
[edit] Inflectional suffixesInflection changes grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. In the example:
the suffix -ed inflects the root-word clear to indicate past tense. Some inflectional suffixes in present day English:
[edit] Derivational suffixesIn the example:
the suffix -ly modifies the root-word clear from an adjective into an adverb. Derivation can also form a semantically distinct word within the same syntactic category. In this example:
the suffix -ish modifies the root-word clear, changing its meaning to "clear, but not very clear". Some derivational suffixes in present day English:
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