Noun suffixes in English! The following is a list of noun suffixes for practicing spelling, along with their meanings and examples. Suffixes are a letter or group of letters added to the ending of words to change their meaning or function.
Common Noun Suffixes
–age
- Meaning: A result
- Example: Wreckage, vintage, baggage, cartage, damage
–ance
- Meaning: An action os state
- Example: Importance, appearance, significance, resistance
-ant
- Meaning: A person
- Example: Assistant, accountant, consultant, contestant
–ee
- Meaning: A person
- Example: Referee, employee, payee, conferee, refugee
-ence
- Meaning: An action or state
- Example: Difference, dependence, subsistence
-er / –or
- Meaning: A person
- Example: Teacher, geographer, foreigner, doctor, guarantor
–ery
- Meaning: A type or place of work
- Example: Bakery, machinery, scenery, bravery
–ess
- Meaning: Makes a feminine form
- Example: Waitress, actress, hostess
–ion
- Meaning: A process, state, or result
- Example: Decoration, suggestion, completion, excision
–ism
- Meaning: A belief or condition
- Example: Judaism, organism, alcoholism, parallelism
–ist
- Meaning: A person
- Example: Florist, chemist, dramatist, economist
–ment
- Meaning: An action or state
- Example: Measurement, abridgment, banishment, accomplishment
–ness
- Meaning: A quality or state
- Example: Happiness, bitterness, darkness, kindheartedness
Tereza Culkova
Wednesday 20th of July 2022
You have the wrong column with -ion
Zahra Pereira
Sunday 20th of February 2022
This is terrible
Candace
Friday 30th of October 2020
How do we print these charts?