Word formation - a list of suffixes (1)
By adding a suffix (word ending) you modify the original word (root), and often the result is a new word class. Drink (noun, verb) + -able (suffix) = drinkable (adjective) In the list below you find some very common suffixes, what they mean, and examples of how they can form new words. Some of theses suffixes are not Latin, but your priority is to understand.

Suffix Meaning Examples -able -ible able to be, capable of being, which you can ... collectible curable drinkable flexible visible   -al -ial     -an -ian     -ary     -ance, -ancy state of, process of acceptance currency defiance infancy performance radiance   -ate     -dom condition, office, state freedom kingdom wisdom   -ee one who receives, one who is the object of the action appointee employee examinee payee referee refugee   -er -or one who does [the verb] author creator director driver hiker reader   -ful filled with beautiful colourful cupful delightful dreadful wonderful   -ify to make into beautify classify disqualify glorify horrify   -ification process of making into clarification petrification purification specification unification   -ish the nature of, resembling apish babyish childish devilish greenish whitish   -ism doctrine, system, characteristic quality capitalism communism idealism pluralism realism terrorism   -ist one who performs; an adherent of an ism cellist communist moralist realist pharamacist pragmatist   -ise -ize to make into animalize centralize normalize rationalize, realize   -isation -ization the process of making into commercialisation individualization normalization rationalization realization -less without bottomless fearless lawless meaningless tireless