Common suffixes (endings to words) Flashcards
bar
ible (denkar- thinkable)
-chen and -lein
dominutives (Hauslein- little house)
-d
changes verb into participle (singend- singing)
-fach
means times (dreifach- three times)
-e
added to an adjective will change it into noun (Gute- goodness)
-haft
expresses meaning of word in the stem lehrhaft (teaching)
-heit, -keit, -igkeit
added to adjectives to form abstract nouns (Ewigkeit- eternity)
-ig
like Enlglish y. (hungrig- hungry)
-isch
added to nouns to turn into adjectives (launisch- moody)
-ismus
added to adjectives to make nounse
-lich
added to verbs and nouns to turn into adjectives (when added to verbs, -lich means able, when added to nouns, it means ly.
-los
without, less (hilflos- helpless)
-mal
time, times (manchmal- sometimes)
-schaft
Added to concrete nouns to make them abstract (Freundschaft- friendship)
-ung
added to verb and corresponds with -ing, -tion, -ment (Trennung (separation)