[Music] let's review suffixes a suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to form a different word it's important to know suffixes because they change the meaning of words let's jump in and review suffixes e d spells Ed D or t it makes three different sounds when Ed is added to a word it makes the verb past tense or it means it happened already walked smelled painted iing in when we add in to a word it means that it's happening now it's in the present flying driving read e
in l y Le when Lee is added to a word it turns an adjective into an adverb such as slow into slowly sadly quickly loudly e NN means made of wooden golden sweeten e RR means comparative where you compare two things higher slower Kinder eer can also mean one who such as teacher Builder driver e s s is also comparative like e but it is among three or more things or people biggest neatest brightest Fu L full means full of cheerful colorful painful l s less means without or the opposite of full Fearless Sleepless hopeless
M NT me means the action or process refreshment disappointment enjoyment n s Ness means the state of or the condition illness Darkness closeness and our final suffix is a b l e able which means that it can be done readable laughable comfortable hopefully now you are even more comfortable with suffixes to understand the meaning of more words and of bigger words there are even more suffixes than this but these are good ones to begin [Music] with