Lesson 59. Word formation. Suffixation.

Suffix —ous means «ful of» which comes from French e.g. danger + ous = dangerous

А. Form adjectives from nouns and translate them.

EXAMPLE: nerve + ous = nervous

fame — …, humour — …, courage — …, glory (y->i) — …, poison — …, space (i) — …

В. Use the words in the sentences.

We don’t know if these chemicals are ____________ to people.
She became ____________as a writer.
I like to read ___________stories.
There are a lot of ________ snakes in the jungle.
It was a _________victory.
He was a ____________soldier.
They liked the _______________rooms in their new house.

Suffix -al means realting to, or having the quality of.

A. Make up adjectives with the help of suffix -al and translate them.

EXAMPLE: music – musical

industry – …, culture – …, region – …, tradition – …, nature – …, nation – …, agriculture – …, comic – …

Sufffix -ish

The canonical use of -ish is as a suffix meaning “approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish.

This is the definition—the only definition—that you’ll find in Merriam-Webster, which notes that -ish derives from the Old English -isc, of Germanic origin, which in turn is related to similar such suffixes in Dutch (-isch) and Greek (-iskos)

Suffix -ive

Suffix -ive is also a Latin suffix that means "that performs or tends toward an (indicated) action".

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