Word Formation (Nouns)

WORD FORMATION

NOUNS

OCCUPATIONS Verb + (- or)

• Meaning: a person or thing that does something as a job

• Examples: act – actor;
• sail – sailor;
• conduct – conductor;

OCCUPATIONS Verb + (- ant)

• Meaning: a person or thing that

• Examples: inhabit – inhabitant;
• depend – dependant;

OCCUPATIONS Noun + (- er) Verb + (-er) Adjective + (- er)

• Meaning: a person or thing that;
• a person concerned with;
• a person belonging to;

• Examples: foreign - foreigner;
• Dublin – Dubliner;
• win – winner;

OCCUPATIONS Noun + (- ist)

• Meaning: a person who uses a thing;
• a person who does something;

• Examples: violin – violinist;
• guitar - guitarist;

OCCUPATIONS Noun + (- ian)

• Meaning: a specialist in;
• a person who does something as a job or hobby;

• Examples: physics – physician;
• history - historian;

STATES Noun |Verb + (-dom)

• Meaning: the group of;
• the condition or state of;

• Examples: king – kingdom;
• free - freedom;

STATES Noun + (-hood)

• Meaning: the state or quality of;
• a group of people of the type mentioned;

• Examples: brother – brotherhood;
• neighbour - neighbourhood;

STATES Noun + (-ship)

• Meaning: the state or quality of;

• Examples: citizen –citizenship;
• member – membership;

QUALITIES Adjective + (-ity)

• Meaning: condition or quality of;

• Examples: able – ability;
• creative - creativity;

QUALITIES Verb + (-ment)

• Meaning: action or result of;

• Examples: arrange – arrangement;
• excite - excitement;

QUALITIES Adjective + (-ness)

• Meaning: the state or quality of;

• Examples: ill – illness;
• happy – happiness;

QUALITIES Adjective|Verb + (-th)

• Meaning: connected with

• Examples: true – truth;
• deep - depth;
• grow – growth;

ACTIVITIES or PROCESSES Verb + (-al)

• Meaning: a process or state of;

• Examples: survive – survival;
• arrive - arrival;

ACTIVITIES or PROCESSES Verb + (- ing)

• Meaning: the quality of material; an activity;

• Examples: drive – driving;
• swim - swimming;
• mean – meaning;

ACTIVITIES or PROCESSES Verb + (-ure)

• Meaning: action; process or result of

• Examples:
• fail – failure;
• please - pleasure;

ACTIVITIES or PROCESSES Verb + (- ion/ation/ition/sion/tion/xion)

• Meaning : the action or state of;

• Examples: dictate – dictation;
• compete – competition;
• direct – direction;

Find suffixes

• business
• computer
• movement
• Information
• tourist
• announcement
• relationship

• entertainment
• denial
• reading
• width
• departure
• attraction
• development