Suffixes is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Suffixes in a sentence
Suffixes meaning
plural of suffix
Using Suffixes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of suffix
- In the example corpus, suffixes often appears in combinations such as: the suffixes, and suffixes, suffixes are.
Context around Suffixes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Suffixes
- In this selection, "suffixes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vowel, case, take, used, indicating and karba stand out and add context to how "suffixes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include affects inflectional suffixes and derivational and although the suffixes are exactly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "suffixes" sits close to words such as abeokuta, abstained and accenture, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with suffixes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Another system ( scientific ) suffixes a number (starting with 0, or sometimes -1). (12 words)
Adjectives in themselves can behave as nouns (e.g. take case suffixes): Melyik almát kéred? (15 words)
Are “shameful” and “shameless” the only words in English language which mean the same with contrasting suffixes? (17 words)
The different parts of speech are marked by their own suffixes: all common nouns end in -o main, all adjectives in -a main, all derived adverbs in -e main, and all verbs in one of six tense and mood suffixes, such as the present tense -as main. (47 words)
These might look like the suffixes in earlier sections, but the big difference is that the earlier ones are related to the cases found in Indo-European languages, while no Indo-European language has any suffixes like the above three. (40 words)
Suffix conjugations take suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, which bear some resemblance to the pronominal suffixes used to indicate direct objects on verbs ("I saw him") and possession on nouns ("his dog"). (37 words)
Are “shameful” and “shameless” the only words in English language which mean the same with contrasting suffixes? (17 words)
Adjectives in themselves can behave as nouns (e.g. take case suffixes): Melyik almát kéred? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
Skopje, 1968) Thus, the now slightly archaicized forms with suffixes –ние and –тел, adjectives with the suffixes –телен and others, are now constructed following patterns more typical of Macedonian morphology.
Suffix conjugations take suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, which bear some resemblance to the pronominal suffixes used to indicate direct objects on verbs ("I saw him") and possession on nouns ("his dog").
Suffixes and reference valuesmain Suffixes are commonly attached to the basic dB unit in order to indicate the reference value by which the ratio is calculated.
The basic rule is that words including at least one back vowel get back vowel suffixes (karba – in(to) the arm), while words excluding back vowels get front vowel suffixes (kézbe – in(to) the hand).
The different parts of speech are marked by their own suffixes: all common nouns end in -o main, all adjectives in -a main, all derived adverbs in -e main, and all verbs in one of six tense and mood suffixes, such as the present tense -as main.
These might look like the suffixes in earlier sections, but the big difference is that the earlier ones are related to the cases found in Indo-European languages, while no Indo-European language has any suffixes like the above three.
Vowel harmony affects inflectional suffixes and derivational suffixes, which have two forms, one for use with back vowels, and the other with front vowels.
Words are composed out of roots not so much by adding prefixes or suffixes, but rather by filling in the vowels between the root consonants (although prefixes and suffixes are often added as well).
Race down memory lane and you’ll discover the various suffixes that have been attached to it: GTA, GTB, GTC, GTD, and GTE are among the variations of the theme, and each one means something different.
The debate raged with some mums swearing they'd avoid 'frumpy' sounding names and others not enjoying names that have suffixes - such as Hayden, Jayden and Kayden.
Are “shameful” and “shameless” the only words in English language which mean the same with contrasting suffixes?
Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM Modi suffixes “bhai” to the names of a handful of big industrialists like Nirav (Modi), Mehul (Choksi) even though they have run away with thousands of crores.
Adjectives in themselves can behave as nouns (e.g. take case suffixes): Melyik almát kéred?
A few words borrowed from English can amalgamate both suffixes, like brikksa from the English brick, which can adopt either collective form brikks or the plural form brikksiet.
Agglutinative constructions The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes.
All firearms made by HK are named by a prefix and the official designation, with suffixes used for variants.
A more general nomenclature for open-chain monosaccharides combines a Greek prefix to indicate the number of carbons (tri-, tetr-, pent-, hex-, etc.) with the suffixes "-ose" for aldoses and "-ulose" for ketoses.
Another system ( scientific ) suffixes a number (starting with 0, or sometimes -1).
By some linguists, they are still regarded as two separate cases in those languages, although the suffixes are exactly the same for both cases.
Consonant stems A word with a consonant stem is one where case suffixes can in some cases be affixed directly after the last consonant for at least some forms.
Common combinations with suffixes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the suffixes 11×
- and suffixes 9×
- suffixes are 8×
- suffixes such 7×
- suffixes to 7×
- suffixes and 6×
- suffixes like 5×
- suffixes that 5×
- with suffixes 4×
- or suffixes 4×