英语后缀可以分为多种类型,包括名词后缀、动词后缀、形容词后缀和副词后缀等。以下是常见的英语后缀分类及其规律:
1. 名词后缀:名词后缀通常用于将其他词类(如动词、形容词等)转换为名词形式。常见的名词后缀包括-ment、-tion、-ness、-ity、-ance、-cy等。例如,movement(运动)、nation(国家)、happiness(幸福)、ability(能力)。
2. 动词后缀:动词后缀通常用于将其他词类转换为动词形式。常见的动词后缀包括-ate、-ify、-en、-ize等。例如,activate(激活)、simplify(简化)、strengthen(加强)、realize(实现)。
3. 形容词后缀:形容词后缀通常用于将名词或动词转换为形容词形式。常见的形容词后缀包括-ful、-ic、-al、-ary、-ish等。例如,beautiful(美丽的)、heroic(英雄的)、magical(魔法的)、ordinary(普通的)、childish(孩子气的)。
4. 副词后缀:副词后缀通常用于将形容词转换为副词形式。常见的副词后缀包括-ly、-ward、-wise等。例如,quickly(快速地)、backward(向后地)、wisely(明智地)。
对于英语后缀的规律,有一些基本原则可以帮助学习者记忆:
1. 如果一个词以元音结尾,则通常直接添加后缀;如果以辅音结尾,则需要在末尾加上一个额外的辅音字母,以确保发音正常。
2. 一些后缀只能被添加到特定的词类(如,-able只能被添加到动词后面,-ful只能被添加到名词或动词后面)。
3. 一些后缀在不同的情况下可能有不同的用法、意义和拼写方式,需要根据具体情况学习和掌握。
一、名词后缀
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1.-ster,-eer,-er(or)意为:从事某种职业或参与某种活动的人(person engaged in an occupation or activity)例词:gamester,gangster,songster,engineer,profiteer,mountaineer,auctioneer,driver,teacher,director,actor,professor
2.-let意为:小或者不重要的东西(small,unimportant things)例词:booklet,leaflet,starlet
3.-ette意为:1)小的东西(small)例词:cigarette 2)假的东西(imitation)例词:leatherette 3)女性(female)例词: usherette
4.-ess意为:女性(female)例词:actress,poetess,hostess,paintress
5.-hood意为:时期(status;etc.)例词:boyhood,childhood,manhood
6.-ship意为:才能,状态,资格,品质等(skill,state,condition,status,quality)例词:leadership,friendship,membership,lectureship,sportsmanship
7.-ful意为:量(the amount which noun contains)例词:cupful,handful, mouthful,spoonful
8.-tion,-ion意为:1)状态,行动等(state;action;etc.)例词:action,oppression,possession,education,starva- tion 2)机构等(institution;etc.)例词: organization,foundation
9.-ment意为:状态,行动等(state; action;etc.)例词:movement,enslavement,pavement
10.-al意为:动作(action)例词:arrival,refusal,revival,recital,removal
11.-age意为:程度,数量等(extent; amount;etc.)例词:wastage,coverage, acreage,shrinkage,breakage,hostage
12.-ness;-ity(ty)意为:状态,品质(state;quality;etc.)例词:happiness, usefulness,selfishness,kindness,rapidity,activity,sanity,changeability
13.-ism意为:道义,主义,学说等(doctrine of,practice of)例词:idealism, impressionism,absenteeism,racism
二、动词后缀
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1.-ify意为:转为,变为(to turn into,to make or become)例词:beautify, diversify,simplify
2.-ize;-en意为:使……,变得……(to make or become ;to make into)例词:modernize,popularize,legalize,hospitalize,symbolize,ripen,widen,heighten,threaten
3.-ate意为:增加,使……(give or add,make or become)例词:originate, hydrogenate,validate,differentiate
三、形容词后缀:
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1.-ful意为:充满,有(full of;hav- ing;giving;etc.)例词:useful,pitiful, hopeful,helpful,forgetful,thankful, fearful
2.-less意为:没有,无(without;not giving)例词:speechless,childless,harmless,hopeless,meaningless
3.-ly意为:有……品质的(having the qualities of)例词:beastly,manly, brotherly,friendly
4.-like意为:像……的(like)例词: childlike,statesmanlike,tiger-like
5.-y;-ish意为:像……一般的(somewhat like)例词:meaty,sandy, silky,hairy,leafy,watery,foolish,girlish,blackish,thinnish
6.-some意为:像……一样的;引起……的;有……品质的(like;causing; having the quality of)例词:troublesome,burdensome,wholesome,tiresome,bothersome
7.-able(ible)意为:能……的;可以……的(able to be ;capable)例词: changeable,readable,drinkable,comfortable,expansible,convincible
8.-ed意为:有……的(having,etc.)例词:wooded,pointed,moneyed, odd-shaped
9.-al意为:有……属性的,……类型的(nature of,typical of)例词:cultural,personal,regional,musical
10.-ary(ory)意为:属于……的,与……相连的(belonging to;connected with)例词:revolutionary,imaginary, contradictory
11.-ous意为:富含……的;有……品质的;像……的(full of;having the quality of;like)例词:glorious,erroneous,malicious,gracious
12.-ic(ical)意为:……类的;属于……的(typical of;belonging to)例词: historic,historical,methodic,methodical,dramatic,heroic
13.-ive意为:有……属性的;有某种倾向的(having the nature or quality of;given or tending to)例词:attractive, talkative,restrictive,defensive,preventive,constructive,sensitive
四、副词后缀
常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:
1.-ly意为:以……方式(in a…manner;etc.)
例词:happily, boldly,attentive- ly,strangely
2.-ward(s)意为:表示方式或动作的方向(manner and direction of movement)例词:onward(s),backward(s),earthward(s),homeward(s),eastward(s)
3.-wise意为:1)按照……方式(in the manner of)例词:crabwise,clockwise2)就……而言(as
far as …is concerned)例词:weatherwise ,educationwise
有一个原因的单音节词,结尾只有一个单音辅音,在加以元音后缀是,要双写这个辅音.例词:run + er = runner hit + ing = hitting