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'Spiderling' exists; but it's used for a young spider, rather than a small one. For frog, you could use 'froglet'. Once there was '-kin' (lambkin, Peterkin, etc), but it seems obsolete now. Curious that no augmentative suffixes seem to exist. I suppose we can use '-issimo' or '-meister' for...

Thank you all of you. Now I know there is no rule (suffixes) in English, as in Spanish is, to talk about diminutives. But you said nothing about "aumentatives": (animal, animalón; where "on" is the Spanish suffix which stands for "very big animal") in English. Have we to use adjectives "big";...

Hello Im from Estonia and i dont understand very well inglish.But my question is about suffixis and prefixes. What is suffixes and what is prefixes and give 4 examples for each. Anett

Hello, Anuke, and welcome to English Forums. I am not sure what kind of rule you think may exist. There are certain noun-making (-tion, -ity, etc), adjective-making (-ious, -ial, etc) and verb-making (-ize, -ate, etc) suffixes, but there are no specific rules on which is used on stems. And...

Su's post: I always wonder some thing in English grammar. For instance, the sentence: I drive him. 'I' is the subject. 'Him' is the object. Yet their position have told us this too. Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing? For if the sentences of: I him drive. drive I...

Rats. I was hoping for a one word term. I guess that's my so-called luck.

Yes, they are called 'name suffixes': 'A name suffix, in the Western naming tradition, follows a person’s full name and provides additional information about the person. There are academic, honorary, professional and social name suffixes.' (Wikipedia, granted). 'Jr.' and 'Sr.' are personal...

Is there an English noun for name suffixes as a group?

The root is the simplest part of a word, from which all the other forms are built up by adding prefixes and suffixes. For example, '-form-' is the root for the words 'inform', 'information', 'informative', 'deform', 'formulate', etc. Does that help?

Regarding the many spanish verb conjugations, I must say I truly believe that it's complexity is ultimately what keeps spanish speakers from having such vast vocabulary as english speakers do. A single verb (aside from irregulars, which aren't many) requires knowing only two other words in...