Difference between revisions of "Language/English/Vocabulary/Prefixes-and-Suffixes"

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In this lesson, you will learn how to use the prefixes and suffixes in English.

A prefix appears at the beginning of a word and changes the word’s original meaning.
A suffix is usually attached to the end of a word to form a new word, as well as alter the way it works grammatically.

Here are the main ones and their translation in several languages.

	English	Spanish	French	Italian	German	Russian	Turkish
Mis-	represent/misrepresent	representar/falsificar	représenter/falsifier
Over-	time/overtime	tiempo/sobre tiempo	temps/heures supplémentaires
Dis-	infectant/disinfectants	infectante/desinfectante	Infectant/désinfectant
-Able	to drink/drinkable	beber/bebible	boire/buvable
-Ful	wonder/wonderful	maravilla/maravilloso	miracle/merveilleux
-Ness	Sick/sickness	enfermo/enfermedad	malade/maladie
-Less	worth/worthless	útil/inútil	utile/inutile

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    |time/overtime
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    |Dis-
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    |infectant/disinfectants
    |infectante/desinfectante
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    | -Able
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    |to drink/drinkable
    |beber/bebible
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    | -Ful
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    |wonder/wonderful
    |maravilla/maravilloso
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    | -Ness
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    |Sick/sickness
    |enfermo/enfermedad
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    | -Less
-  |Suffixe
    |worth/worthless
    |útil/inútil