1) 構成名詞的后綴很多,常見的有下面這些:
后 綴 例 詞
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等于-ability stability availability advisability capability
等于-age shortage marriage leakage drainage
等于-al denial betrayal dismissal withdrawal
等于-an American Russian Asian African
等于-ance attendance guidance performance assistance
等于-ant applicant consultant immigrant participant
等于-ary dictionary missionary boundary commentary
等于-ate doctorate consulate electorate directorate
等于-ation examination education decoration temptation
等于-cy accuracy efficiency privacy bureaucracy
等于-dom freedom kingdom wisdom boredom
等于-ee employee absentee refugee trustee
等于-eer engineer mountaineer auctioneer profiteer
等于-ence difference existence preference diligence
等于-er driver writer reporter dancer
等于-ery bribery embroidery mockery machinery
等于-ese Chinese Japanese Portuguese Vietnamese
等于-ess actress princess goddess hostess
等于-ful handful spoonful bagful busful
等于-hood childhood neighborhood motherhood knighthood
等于-ian magician musician historian mathematician
等于-ibility possibility visibility responsibility flexibility
等于-ing feeling shopping reading sightseeing
等于-ion action decision collection creation
等于-ism Marxism socialism pessimism heroism
等于-ist capitalist communist racist novelist
等于-ity prosperity equality formality majority
等于-let piglet booklet starlet bracelet
等于-man fireman policeman chairman Englishman
等于-ment arrangement government development assignment
等于-ness happiness sadness weakness bitterness
等于-or actor sailor director visitor
等于-ry jewelry slavery bribery bravery
等于-ship friendship leadership ownership sportsmanship
等于-ty loyalty safety cruelty penalty
等于-ure failure departure pleasure pressure
等于-ware software glassware silverware hardware
等于-work housework schoolwork needlework paperwork
等于-y modesty difficulty discovery inquiry
2) 還有一些次要的構成名詞的后綴:
后 綴 例 詞
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等于-aholic, oholic bookaholic workaholic chocoholic
等于-archy anarchy monarchy hierarchy
等于-arian librarian vegetarian humanitarian
等于-cide suicide homicide genocide
等于-craft aircraft hovercraft spacecraft
等于-ette cigarette usherette kitchenette
等于-folk menfolk countryfolk townsfolk
等于-gram diagram telegram kilogram
等于-graph autograph paragraph photograph
等于-hand farmhand factory-hand garage-hand
等于-head spearhead bridgehead letterhead
等于-ial denial burial memorial
等于-itis arthritis hepatitis appendicitis
等于-logue dialogue monologue catalogue
等于-mania egomania kleptomania megalomania
等于-mate schoolmate roommate playmate
等于-meter barometer speedometer thermometer
等于-metre centimetre kilometre millimetre
等于-monger fishmonger warmonger rumourmonger
等于-ocracy autocracy democracy bureaucracy
等于-ocrat aristocrat bureaucrat democrat
等于-ology biology psychology ecology
等于-phone earphone saxophone telephone
等于-scape landscape moonscape riverscape