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

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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			представлять (являть собой) / искажать (представлять в ложном свете)
Over-	time/overtime	tiempo/sobre tiempo	temps/heures supplémentaires			время (раз, момент) / сверхурочное время, переработка
Dis-	infectant/disinfectants	infectante/desinfectante	Infectant/désinfectant			возбудитель инфекции / дезинфицирующие средства

	English	Spanish	French	Italian	German	Russian	Turkish
-Able	to drink/drinkable	beber/bebible	boire/buvable			пить / пригодный для питья
-Ful	wonder/wonderful	maravilla/maravilloso	miracle/merveilleux			чудо / чудесный
-Ness	Sick/sickness	enfermo/enfermedad	malade/maladie			больной / болезнь
-Less	worth/worthless	útil/inútil	utile/inutile			ценный, значимый / бесполезный, никчемный, никудышный, бездарный, бессмысленный

-Ive protect/protective

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