常见英语名词后缀

常见英语名词后缀

在英语单词中，许多名词是通过在形容词、动词后添加后缀转化而来。例如，动词invent可转化为invention；形容词able转化为ability。这些名词后缀可以帮助我们轻松区别名词。

下面列举一些常见的英语名词后缀。

1. 动词加后缀转化为名词

-er 人
write—writer
fight—fighter

cook—cooker

 

-or 人
act—actor

visit—visitor
invent—inventor

 

-ress/-ess

act—actress

wait—waitress

poet—poetess

god—goddess

host—hostess

 

-al
survive—survival
arrive—arrival 
approve—approval

 

-ing(动名词)
feel—feeling
shop—shopping
read—reading

 

-ation
examine—examination
educate—education
decorate—decoration

 

-ion
act—action
collect—collection
create—creation
decide—decision

 

-ure

press—pressure

please—pleasure

mix—mixture

fail—failure

close—closure

 

-ment

govern—government

argue—argument

agree—agreement

advertise—advertisement

move—movement

treat—treatment

excite—excitement

develop—development

 

2. 形容词加后缀转化为名词

ble—ility
able—ability
possible—possibility

visible—visibility
responsible—responsibility

-ness
happy—happiness 
kind—kindness

weak—weakness
sad—sadness

 

-ty
poor—poverty

certain—certainty

safe—safety
difficult—difficulty

honest—honesty

anxious—anxiety

 

-th

true—truth

warm—warmth

long—length

young—youth

grow—growth

 

 

3. 其他常见后缀

-an 或 -ese （某个国家或地区的人）
China—Chinese

America—American

Asia—Asian

 

-ence
different—difference

important—importance

patient—patience

dependent—dependence

prefer—preference

 

-ian ...家
music—musician

history—historian

 

-ee 受动者 
employ—employee

train—trainee

address—addressee

pay—payee

 

-ist 人、主义者
ideal—idealist

science—scientist

art—artist

tour—tourist

race—racist

social—socialist

 

-ism ...主义

social—socialism

Buddhist—Buddhism(佛教)

 

-ship

friend—friendship

citizen—citizenship

student—studentship

relation—relationship

hard—hardship

leader—leadership

space—spaceship

 

今天，王老师归纳的是一些特别常见的英语名词后缀。其实，更复杂的英语名词后缀还有不少呢。我们在英语学习中，注意归纳，这对记忆和辨认单词会非常有效。

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作者：衡阳县三中    王伟华老师
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