Suffixes – High School Equivalency

Some common suffixes

Suffix	Description	Example
-able	able to be	believable
-cian	having a certain skill or art; an extension of of the suffix “-an” used to describe an occupation, for example, artisan. Here’s a list of examples.	musician
-ess	sometimes used to make a word feminine	actress
-ful	full of	colorful
-ing	verb tense or noun form indicating ongoing action	driving
-ion	used to create nouns from verbs (can take other forms like -tion and -sion)	celebration
-ly	how, when, where or under what conditions (makes an adverb, or a word that describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb	quickly
-ment	makes a noun	improvement

For more common suffixes, see the bottom of this document:

The suffixes in this exercise are the same as those in the table above.