常見英語名詞后綴

在英語單詞中，許多名詞是通過在形容詞、動(dòng)詞后添加后綴轉(zhuǎn)化而來。例如，動(dòng)詞invent可轉(zhuǎn)化為invention；形容詞able轉(zhuǎn)化為ability。這些名詞后綴可以幫助我們輕松區(qū)別名詞。

下面列舉一些常見的英語名詞后綴。

1. 動(dòng)詞加后綴轉(zhuǎn)化為名詞

-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(動(dòng)名詞)
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. 形容詞加后綴轉(zhuǎn)化為名詞

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. 其他常見后綴

-an 或 -ese （某個(gè)國(guó)家或地區(qū)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 受動(dòng)者 
employ—employee

train—trainee

address—addressee

pay—payee

-ist 人、主義者
ideal—idealist

science—scientist

art—artist

tour—tourist

race—racist

social—socialist

-ism ...主義

social—socialism

Buddhist—Buddhism(佛教)

-ship

friend—friendship

citizen—citizenship

student—studentship

relation—relationship

hard—hardship

leader—leadership

space—spaceship

今天，王老師歸納的是一些特別常見的英語名詞后綴。其實(shí)，更復(fù)雜的英語名詞后綴還有不少呢。我們在英語學(xué)習(xí)中，注意歸納，這對(duì)記憶和辨認(rèn)單詞會(huì)非常有效。