Understanding Suffixes: A Comprehensive Guide
ADJ -> SUST: short-age, -ANCE: elegant, important. -ENCE: adolescent, confident, different, independent, intelligent, (im)patient, violent. -CY: accurate, decent, efficient, fluent, frequent, private, urgent. -DOM: king, bored, free. -ETY: anxious (anxiety), safe. -NESS: aware, blind, dark, happy, ill, kind, lonely, sad, weak, full, conscious.
VRB -> Sub: -ANT: assist, immigrate. -ENT: study. -ATION: examine, imagine, organize. -EE: employ, train, interview. -ER: drive, paint, teach, play. -OR: act, conduct. -ION: act, connect, create, exhibit. -MENT: achieve, amuse, develop, govern, improve, employ. -SION: admit, confuse, decide, discuss, express, permit. -URE: fail, please, press.
SUST -> SUST: -IST: art, optimism, pacifism, science. -IAN: comedy, history, politics. -HOOD: child, mother. -SHIP: friend, member, relation.
SUST -> ADJ: -FUL: beauty, care, color, harm, hope, pain, peace, power, success, thought, use, wonder. -LESS: care, color, harm, help, home, hope, pain, power, thought, use. -AL: accident, environment, influence, logic, music, nation, origin, politics, profession, sentiment. -IC: artist, economy, optimism, pessimism. -OUS: ambition, danger, religion.
VRB -> ADJ: -IVE: act, attract, compete, create, decide, destroy, effect, produce, support. -ABLE: accept, afford, believe, comfort, depend, desire, enjoy, question, rely, suit, value. -IBLE: access, collect, convert, digest, eat (edible), force, respond.