English Suffixes -Y -ISH -ESQUE - Learn English Grammar

Today we're going to do some awesome suffixes

To describe things like weather, you can use the suffix "Y"

But you can also use this to describe people's appearance

For example:

If somebody has a lot of hair

They are "hairy"

Or another example "Shiny" or like the guy in twilight "Sparkly"

Notice you're putting a noun with the letter "Y"

So you can also describe tastes and smells

For example:

This tastes fishy

Or lemony

Or my tea is milky

So those are most common for tastes and smells,

But for colours and times, we add "ISH"

This means not exactly that colour or time, but, more or less

For example:

So she's asking "What colour are my eyes?"

He can say "Not exactly green, not exactly blue"

Greenish bluish

If you're not good with meeting people on time

"Let's meet at 8ish"

Not exactly eight, maybe a bit before, maybe a bit after, ...eight-ish!

You can also just use "ish" alone

For example:

"Are they good-looking?"

"Ish"

"Was the movie good?"

"Ish"

Remember: "ish" is kind of informal

...or informal-ish

But to say that something is in the style of something in a more formal way

You can say: "Esque"

For example:

This church is in the style of a Roman Church

It's "Romanesque"

If something's in an Arab style in "Arabesque"

If something sounds like it's from a Kafka novel, It's Kafkaesque!

See you in the next class. Bye!