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Word Formation: Unit 1: Adjective Suffixes. Noun / Verb Adjective Translation

The document discusses adjective suffixes in English. It provides examples of nouns and verbs paired with their adjective forms created by adding suffixes like "-ful", "-less", and "-ic". Some of the pairs included are fury/furious, office/official, help/helpful, power/powerful, thought/thoughtful, pain/painful, use/useful, care/careful, hope/hopeful, materialist/materialistic, nerve/nervous, create/creative, person/personal, nature/natural, predict/predictable, beauty/beautiful, and danger/dangerous. The suffixes can change the meaning to describe something having the quality, lacking the quality, or related to the thing

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Word Formation: Unit 1: Adjective Suffixes. Noun / Verb Adjective Translation

The document discusses adjective suffixes in English. It provides examples of nouns and verbs paired with their adjective forms created by adding suffixes like "-ful", "-less", and "-ic". Some of the pairs included are fury/furious, office/official, help/helpful, power/powerful, thought/thoughtful, pain/painful, use/useful, care/careful, hope/hopeful, materialist/materialistic, nerve/nervous, create/creative, person/personal, nature/natural, predict/predictable, beauty/beautiful, and danger/dangerous. The suffixes can change the meaning to describe something having the quality, lacking the quality, or related to the thing

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WORD FORMATION

UNIT 1: ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES.

NOUN / VERB ADJECTIVE TRANSLATION


fury furious furioso
office official oficial
help helpful / helpless servicial / indefenso
power powerful / powerless poderoso / incapaz, sin autoridad
colour colourful / colourless colorido / descolorido
thought thoughtful / thoughtless atento, considerado / desconsiderado
pain painful / painless doloroso / indoloro
use useful / useless til / intil
care careful / careless cuidadoso / descuidado
harm harmful / harmless perjudicial / inofensivo
hope hopeful / hopeless prometedor, ilusionado / sin remedio
home homeful / homeless sin hogar, vagabundo
peace peaceful / peaceless tranquilo
materialist materialistic materialista
depend dependable fiable, seguro (reliable)
nerve nervous nervioso
create creative creativo
person personal personal
adventure adventurous aventurero
optimist optimistic optimista
nature natural natural
predict predictable predecible
nation national nacional
beauty beautiful bonito/a
attract attractive atractivo/a
danger dangerous peligroso

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