Learn suffixes in English grammar - Some common suffixes in English

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