so let's look at common suffixes able or ibble ants and ants yes
er and or less full and fi or if i so here we're going to look at let's see we have seven and plus
um that mean the same thing that we're going to look at today all right so what do these mean
hubble or ible mean can or capable of being so for example let's say i might use a word like
dependable or even better understandable so we saw the word understand with a prefix misunderstand
don't understand or understand wrongly we can also put a suffix on the base word understand
understandable which means can understand or capable of understanding right if something is
understandable it means ah i can understand it all right so next we have ants and ants
this is a state or quality of being so this is this can be a little confusing this is a term
we see a lot with suffixes a state of being or a quality of being so this is most often used for
uh adjectives right words we use to describe things and we'll see some examples of that
next we have ious which means full of which we'll uh we'll see examples of in the future so
i o u s full love next we have er and or which is a person who blank so often we see a verb and
er and or at the end for example teacher is a person who teaches right
next we have l-e-s-s which means without or lacking something
full unsurprisingly means full of and fi or if i means to make so let's take a look at some words
that have these different suffixes and see if we can guess what they mean all right so first we
have bubble let's add a base word adapt adaptable so adaptable if you remember a bull means
can or capable of being adaptable means you can adapt and adapt means change
uh to as you need to right if you start a new job you need to be adaptable able to adapt
okay next we have ants which means a state or quality of being so if we have the word brilliance
this is an adjective that means the state or quality of being brilliant
and as you will see with many suffixes often we change the spelling of the base word
to go with the suffix so here our base word is actually brilliant plus our anc e ending and
we get brilliance so next we have i o u s which means full of so a common word base word for this
is space but since we're adding a vowel right here we're gonna take away that e and get the
word spacious this means full of space this is an adjective we might use to describe maybe
a big house or um a big car or something like that very spacious a lot of space full of space
okay next we have our er ending which means a person who blank person who does something so
teacher person who teaches right next we have l-e-s-s which means without
or don't have something so for example homeless is a word we would use to describe
a person or an animal or something like that that has no home homeless without a home
next we have full ful which just like ious means full of so if i say i am thankful that means i am
full of thanks right i feel thankful um very grateful is another word we might use
and last for our examples we have if i which means to make so falsify here we had to change
the spelling false means not true right so to falsify something means to make false
to make something untrue falsify we often see maybe there is a document a paper um and someone
signed it who was not supposed to or something like that they falsified it they made it untrue
all right so next let's see if you can guess what these words mean with our suffixes so
first we have an easy one truthful truthful would mean full of truth this is an adjective we might
use to describe a person who is very honest right so another word we might use here honest
truthful full of truth right not uh someone who lies
next we have ambitious so here we have our base word which is ambition and we added
iou s suffix so we just took off that ending and added ious ambitious
so remember ious means full of so this means full of ambition ambition is that desire to do good do
better in life reach your goals ambitious so maybe you are very ambitious about learning english
that's why you're watching this video today right you are ambitious next we have the word counselor
so we have our an or ending which means a person who does something does the base
word so a counselor is a person who counsels or gives advice and is there to help right
next we have the word permanence so here again we changed the spelling because our base word
is permanent and we have an e-n-c-e ending so we just changed that permanence so this is the
state or quality of being permanent so this is an adjective we might use um or well a noun i
suppose i might say something has permanence it ha it is something that is permanent next we have
the word dependable so we have an a b l e ending which means able can right so dependable is a word
we used that means someone can be depended on or something can be depended on or trusted so
i might say my friend is very dependable or i could even say my car is dependable it is not
going to break down or anything like that so here we see some words with common suffixes