Language/English/Vocabulary/Prefixes-and-Suffixes

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.

Prefixes

	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

Suffixes

	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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