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hello everybody welcome to a new english
lesson today you're going to learn some
really interesting english words that
are going to take your english to the
next level well today you're learning
powerful words for english fluency
ending in
ish that's right
so the words that you're going to learn
today are going to have a suffix which
means an ending which is ish let's find
out how
let's look at this picture guys so you
see this person here tell me what color
is he wearing well he's clearly wearing
red okay
now these two gentlemen here they have
different shades of red let's talk about
this one first
what shade of red do you think he's
wearing well i could say he's wearing
maroon
now if you want to talk about this
person in the middle what would you say
you might say well he is wearing
something close to red
so what you said is a three word phrase
and we want to turn that into one word
let me show you how you can do that
you can say that he's wearing something
red
ish
that's right
which means something close to red it's
not completely red but it's kind of like
red so this is how you're going to make
words ending in ish now with that let's
move to our next word the first word we
have is 12ish now think about it what is
12 12 is simple it's just a number right
but when you want to say something which
is close to 12 you say
12-ish for example
any time close to 12 o'clock now let's
talk about 11 45 which is 15 minutes to
12 you might say well let's meet 12ish
for the movie okay so probably your
movie will start at 12 30 and you're
meeting
12ish a little before or a little later
let's look at an example what time shall
we meet tomorrow
i see you like 12ish i mean i'll almost
see you at 12. so it has that almost
behind it but you don't really need to
say the word you can simply add
ish isn't that easy
okay now with that let's look at the
next word we have
blockish now what is a block guys
that's a block like a box okay now first
of all when something looks like a box
you can say it's blockish
but not only that you can use this word
to talk about something else let's find
out what
big and bulky so the object
or
dumb or unintelligent so when a person
is a little dumb they don't get things
that quickly you can say that they are
blockish okay which means they're not
quick to understand not quick to follow
what you're saying let's look at an
example to understand it better
have you received a blockish courier
what's in it okay so you're saying hey
you received a blockish courier which
means a courier that looks like a box so
probably received it from amazon or
wherever you ordered it from and you've
got a big object inside it and it's in a
block so that's blockish
now talking about someone who is dumb we
have a sentence here
she just looks great her acting skills
are simply blockish which means not that
great a little on the dumb side okay so
now for example we know that there are
so many actors around who look really
amazing but when it comes to acting
skills they are not able to completely
please us in those circumstances you can
use the word blockage moving on
girlish
clearly this means girl-like okay so you
would say a girl-like characteristic so
for that you can use girlish it can be
someone's voice which can be girlish
okay let's look at an example
please keep me away from this girlish
conversation so i have this friend david
and the other day i was talking to him
about my recent makeup purchase and i
was telling him i bought an amazing
lipstick and he was like hey please keep
me away from your girlish conversation
so probably he's not a big fan of those
things and he doesn't want to talk about
it so that's how you use
girlish okay another example
he said his name was thomas but the
voice sounded a bit girlish so for
example you're talking to somebody over
the phone and they tell you their name
which is clearly a male name like thomas
but their voice sounds like girl so they
sound girlish that's perfect
now we have toyish so this of course
comes from the english word
toy which means like a toy so
when something looks like a toy you say
that it's stoich now think of a computer
which doesn't look very real it's really
small and you think like oh that doesn't
even look real it looks like a toy
computer so in that circumstance you
might say
is this a real computer
it looks quite
toyish another one
she's a teen now this gift looks a bit
toys for her age so maybe you know you
have this
niece who is like 14 and you take a
teddy bear for her her mother might tell
you seriously well she's a teen you
can't get this for her this is a bit too
toyish so probably a child might like it
but not a teen and therefore it's been
called
toys which means like a toy
fairish okay now this comes from the
english word
fair
fair can be used to talk about two
different things
first it's the skin color or a
complexion you know that's fair the
other is you know the skills
skills or chances of something happening
okay let's look at it so light skin
color can be fair or something that is
average can be called ferris okay let's
look at an example
you have a fairish chance to win the
race which means an average chance yeah
okay okay yeah you might win the race
all right
or who is that fairish girl with short
hair i haven't seen her before so now
you're talking about someone's skin
color and she looks fairish means not
extremely fair but kind of fair okay
now we have rawish
raw
raw means when something is undercooked
not properly cooked
something that is not completely cooked
is
rawish that's right okay
i like vegetables a little rawish in my
soup so when you have soup and you don't
like to have your vegetables completely
cooked you will say i like my vegetables
sort of rawish okay
and here we have snobbish so let me show
you what snobbish is okay i'd rather
show you the action it's like
i'm the best
well that's snobbish somebody who is a
little arrogant okay so someone who
thinks he or she is superior to others
that person is called snobbish let's
look at an example
i was surprised when i met the ceo i
always thought he was a bit snobbish
so when you meet a person probably a
person who is in a you know really big
position a big wig you might think oh he
would be really snobbish but in this
case we met the ceo but he was actually
not snobbish probably a very humble down
to earth so kind of humble or down to
earth is the opposite of snobbish okay
another sentence this snobbish guy is in
a desperate need of a job but refuses to
work in an executive's role so probably
a young guy who definitely needs a job
but is snobbish and thinks that oh an
executive's role or a salesperson's role
is
too low for me so that kind of thinking
is called snobbish when you think that
oh that's too small for me i can't do
that okay
moving on loish again so snobbish is
kind of something that's high and
low-ish is something that is low
so it means something that is low okay
it could be temperature or it could be
percentage
and the other one is skills so if you
don't have good skills your skills are
bluish
i haven't experienced such a lowish
temperature in my city so probably if
you move to somewhere in canada maybe
toronto it's extremely cold and if
you're moving from india you will
clearly say i haven't experienced such a
low-ish temperature in my city somewhere
in india maybe
and then you have there are many
graduates but their ability to perform
is lowish so yeah i think that's true
because nowadays we have so many
graduates but not all of them are
properly skilled in that case you will
say their skills are lowish okay
moving on to grayish okay now this means
that something is not completely black
or completely gray remember the red and
maroon example that i show you showed
you at the beginning of the video yeah
that's where we are so something not
completely gray but kind of close to it
so let's look at an example
i'm not looking for a black top but
grayish that would perfectly go with my
skirt so this means that you're looking
for a color which is close to gray but
not completely gray and not completely
black okay so that's grayish and with
that we're moving to the final word for
the day which is oldish now again guys
oldish doesn't mean old it means
something like old okay it can be
someone's age or it can be you know the
way an object looks okay let's look at
it
uh probably you could use it to talk
about an elderly person okay so probably
somebody who's in their late 50s might
be older you can't say that they're
completely old but they're in between an
example an oldish man was robbed
yesterday late evening so again you know
that this person could be in their late
50s isn't completely old but somewhere
in the middle
and then you have you could get a better
used car for that price this looks a bit
oldish so for this price you will
definitely get a much better car this
car doesn't look new for example you're
trying to buy a second-hand car and the
person tells you well it's five years
old but it looks as if it's 10 years old
so it looks oldish that's how you use
this word well
that's all for today guys thank you so
much for joining me and i hope the words
that you've learned today will surely
boost up your vocabulary and next time
when you want to say close to near about
almost instead of using those words you
will use the ending ish thank you so
much for joining me today i'll see you
in another lesson till then take care
and keep speaking english bye