SUFFIXES

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-ness

Example words: happiness, nervousness, politeness, sadness, sickness, kindness.

Example sentence: He missed two days of work because of sickness.

Creates a noun which describes a quality or state.

-able

Creates an adjective meaning that the subject can do something or that something can be done to it.

example: excitable, employable, enjoyable, readable.

-ible

Example sentence: Stars are only visible at night.

Example words: responsible, visible, horrible, terrible

A different spelling of -able.

example: I didn't like his last book-it wasn't very readable

-ee

Creates a noun meaning "person who receives an action"

examples of words: trainee, employee, reffugee, absentee

example: My company has six thousand employees