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Meaning of Suffix | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈsʌfɪks

Definitions

  1. A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
  2. A subscript.
  3. A final segment of a string of characters.

Equivalents

العربية اللّاحقة لاحقة
Azərbaycanca şəkilçi
Беларуская суфікс
Български наставка
Bosanski sufiks
Català sufix
Čeština přípona sufix
Cymraeg atodi olddodi olddodiad ychwanegu
Dansk suffiks
Ελληνικά επίθημα
Esperanto postafikso sufikso
Español sufijar sufijo
فارسی پسوند
Gaeilge iarmhír
עברית סופית סיומת
हिन्दी प्रत्यय
Hrvatski dometak sufiks
Հայերեն վերջածանց
Bahasa Indonesia akhiran
Íslenska viðskeyti
Italiano suffisso
日本語 接尾語 接尾辞
Қазақша жұрнақ
ខ្មែរ បច្ច័យ
한국어 접미사 접미어
Latina affixum
Latviešu piedēklis
Te Reo Māori hiku
Македонски наставка суфикс
Монгол залгавар
Bahasa Melayu akhiran
မြန်မာဘာသာ နောက်ဆက်
Português sufixar sufixo
Română sufix
Slovenščina pripona
Shqip prapashtesë
Српски sufiks
Kiswahili kiambishi tamati
Тоҷикӣ пасванд
ไทย ปัจจัย
Tagalog hulapi
Türkçe lahika
Українська -ир суфікс

Examples

“The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".”
“The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, […]”
“Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word? […] In other words, the writer would not write or “key” a certain Ithkuil symbol, but rather would select a particular root from a database and identify the particular forms of the 22 morphological categories which apply to the root as well as any suffixes.”
“The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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