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How to use suffix in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Suffix means a morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning. Example: “The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".”

Examples of suffix by meaning

nounA morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

  • The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".

nounA final segment of a string of characters.

  • The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

More sentences with suffix

  • English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.From the entry inflection
  • In English the inflectional suffix -ed is used to form the past of most regular verbs.From the entry inflectional suffix
  • Prefixes, suffixes, and infixes are all affixing particles.From the entry affixing
  • Mongolian has a proprietive derivational suffix.From the entry proprietive
  • The term's suffix, "maxxing," is internet slang that means going all in on something.2026 March 13, “Some Gen Z Americans can't stop 'Chinamaxxing'”, in NPR, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2026. From the entry healthmaxxer
  • A similar suffix -αρ- has also been identified in presumable pre-Greek words.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 449. From the entry presumable
  • While Bhai is bro, the suffix giri is a mode of operation, code, style or trend.2022 July 30, Gautam Pemmaraju, “Bol Bachchan: Speaking Together And Sticking Together In Mumbai”, in Outlook. From the entry roadside Romeo
  • One another suffix used as a caressive and appellative is -(l)y.2015, Fatma Şahan Güney, “Eurasia [Tatar]”, in Nicola Grandi, Lívia Körtvélyessy, editors, Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology…. From the entry caressive
  • Any autonumber has three parts: a fixed prefix, an incremental number, and a changing suffix.2013, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook. From the entry autonumber
  • In hysterokinetic nouns, the suffix is accented in the strong cases, the ending in the weak.2010, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd edition, page 120. From the entry hysterokinetic
  • These markers are suffixed, prefixed, infixed and even at times ambifixed.2008, Anderson, Gregory D. S, The Munda Languages. From the entry ambifix
  • The venitive suffix associates an event of ‘motion to or toward’ to the main verb.2007, Loretta O’Connor, Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal, John Benjamins Publishing Company…. From the entry venitive
  • A number of derivational suffixes are surveyed with a view to determining their palatalizational properties.2007 October, Edmund Gussmann, “The Morphophonology of Polish Palatalizations”, in The Phonology of Polish (The Phonology of the World's…. From the entry palatalizational
  • Incidentally, it is common to store Prolog code in files with a .pl suffix.2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §1.4. From the entry c'est la vie
  • Similar lexical difficulties are involved in defining the suffixed element -ge in place-names like Suðrige (Surrey).2006, The Power of Words, page 355. From the entry suffixed
  • The last suffix is koniosis, which refers to a disease caused by dust.2005, Dawn M. Hudson, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Walch Publishing, →ISBN, page 23, →ISBN. From the entry pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
  • The term apparently consists of the root ʔəwik- ‘back, inland’ and the suffix -k̓ala ‘speech’.2000, Darin Mathew Howe, Oowekyala segmental phonology, University of British Columbia, page 1. From the entry Oowekyala
  • Beginning with a roll-call, we have brand-new versions of everything — all with the “97” suffix.1996 December, Tim Nott, “[Sparring partners] Microsoft Office 97”, in Personal Computer World, London: VNU Business Publications, →ISSN…. From the entry databasey
  • It has always the suffix tree for the scanned part of the string ready.1995 September, Esko Ukkonen, “On-line construction of suffix trees”, in Algorithmica, volume 14, number 3 (PDF), →DOI, archived from the…. From the entry online
  • One way to verbify quickly is by adding the suffix -ize to a word.1994, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, page 1173. From the entry verbify
  • Kirundi exhibits a pattern of consonant mutation before front vowel suffixes that has traditionally been palatalizational.1990, Ellen Broselow, Alice Niyondagara, “Feature geometry of Kirundi palatalization”, in Eyamba G. Bokamba, editor, Studies in the…. From the entry palatalizational
  • There was no proleptic suffix in Moabite, according to the present evidence.1985, W. Randall Garr, Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E, page 168. From the entry proleptic
  • Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function.1918, Henry Bradley, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume IX, page 922, column 2. From the entry agential
  • There is some morphological syntax to adverbs in English: Many can be formed from adjectives, plus the suffix -ly.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry morphological
  • Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have all got an extra suffix on the end to make them cuter."2017 April 23, Jessica Boddy, “Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers”, in NPR All Tech Considered. From the entry fluffer
  • Oikoclitic participles are based on the perfective stem of verbs, while xenoclitic participles are marked by a special participial suffix.2017, Michael Beníšek, Eastern Uzh varieties of North Central Romani, Charles University, page 100. From the entry xenoclitic
  • Now the suffix -oš- may apply to non-Hungarian words in both the NC and NSC dialects, e. g.2017, Dieter W. Halwachs, Florian Menz, Die Sprache der Roma page 330. From the entry Serbo-Croatism
  • The suffixes are formantia with unknown function.2011, Hans Nugteren, Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages, archived from the original on 24 May 2024, page 60. From the entry formantia
  • For example, you can pretend to add a suffix to a word, even if that word doesn't exist.2008 04, Joanne O'Sullivan, I Don't Care If We're There Yet: The Backseat Boredom Buster, Lark Books, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry ghost
  • Similar to German, the a-schwa plural suffix may combine with Umlaut, and Umlaut can also be the only plural marker (i.e.a. 2008, Dorit Ravid, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Agnita Souman, Katja Rehfeldt, Sabine Laaha…. From the entry a-schwa
  • But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman). From the entry Confucius
  • When explaining the definitions of roots, affixes (prefixes and suffixes), derivatives, etc., present them with the following word: pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.2004, Stephanie Riddle, Mastering Vocabulary, page 5. From the entry pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
  • The Old Anatolian Turkic converb suffix -(y)IcAk signifying 'when' could very well come from this suffix together with the particle (O)k.2004, Marcel Erdal, A Grammar of Old Turkic, page 314. From the entry Old Anatolian Turkic
  • But also “the suffix of Celtic origin - together with Roman gentilitials - -āko (and -ago as Romance derivative).”2003, Claudio Beretta, The Names of Rivers, Mounts, Sites: Prehistoric linguistic Structures, Ulrico Hoepli Editore S.p.A., →ISBN, page 112. From the entry gentilitial
  • German speakers, like English speakers, are prone to overapplying the weak suffix (-t) to irregular verbs, resulting in errors.1999, Steven Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. From the entry overapply
  • The method is developed as a linear–time version of a very simple algorithm for (quadratic size) suffix tries.1995 September, Esko Ukkonen, “On-line construction of suffix trees”, in Algorithmica, volume 14, number 3 (PDF), →DOI, archived from the…. From the entry online
  • The substituend item bhis is one of the twenty-one case suffixes (sUP or vibhakti) introduced as a set in Pāṇ. 4.1.2.1994, Pieter C. Verhagen, “Structure and Method”, in A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, volume II, Brill, page 227. From the entry substituend
  • Suffixes have probably been 'worn down' and replaced, and in Kulaal, a recent system of concord markers has been created.1989, The Niger-Congo languages: a classification and description of Africa's largest language family (John Bendor-Samuel, Rhonda L.…. From the entry Kulaal

Meaning of suffix

  1. noun A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
  2. noun A subscript.
  3. noun A final segment of a string of characters.

Full definition of suffix

Questions about suffix in a sentence

How do you use suffix in a sentence?
Suffix is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".”
What is a short sentence with suffix?
“Mongolian has a proprietive derivational suffix.”
What does suffix mean?
Suffix means a morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

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