August 22nd, 2009 
admin In the previous section we learned about the nominal suffixes and in this section let’s learn about verbal suffixes which are attached before the verbs and forms new words. In this article I want to explain about some of the important verb suffixes and how the new words from those suffixes are derived. Of all the verbal suffixes some of the important verbal suffixes are –ate, –en, –ify and –ize.
–ate: forms ending with this suffix represent a rather heterogeneous group. These represents so called ornative and resultative meanings like fluorinate, formate, regulate.
–en: The Germanic suffix –en attaches to monosyllables that end in a positive, fricative. Most of the mords are formed similar to ripen, blacken, broaden etc.
–ify: This suffix attaches with the base words that are monosyllabic. The general words that are formed with this suffix are solidify, humidify etc. This suffix represents the formation of something. The words that are formed with the suffix –ize also have the same meaning with the words formed by –ify suffix.
–ize: This suffix represents the words that are having the related concepts like ornative, locative, resultative, simulative, performative. The derivatives of the –ize suffix represents the complex patterns and difficult to derive sometimes.
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