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                     NOUN-FORMING SUFFIXES (Suffixes ที่แสดง "ค ำนำม")

                          Suffix                      ควำมหมำย                         ตัวอยำง
                                                                                            ่
                 -acy , -cy                state or quality                 bankruptcy

                 -age                      activity                         courage
                 -al                       action                           arrival

                 -ance, -ence              action, state or quality         importance
                 -ary, -ery, -ry           place where something is         library
                                           made, done or sold with

                 -ate                      state                            electorate
                 -ation, -tion, -ion       action, state, condition         examination

                 -dom                      state of being                   freedom
                 -ful                      amount                           handful
                 -hood                     state or time of being           priesthood

                 -phobia                   fear                             hydrophobia
                 -ic, -ics                 arts and sciences                physics

                 -ide                      chemical compound                cyanide
                 -ing                      action                           gliding

                 -ism                      idea, principles or teachings  Buddhism
                 -ity                      state, condition, quality        humidity

                 -let, -ette               small kind of                    booklet
                 -logy, -ology             principles or teaching           geology
                 -ment                     result of                        management

                 -ness                     state; condition                 goodness
                 -ship                     state or quality of              leadership


                 ADJECTIVE-FORMING SUFFIXES (Suffixes ที่แสดง "ค ำคุณศัพท")
                                                                                              ์

                    -able, -ible -al, -ial -an, -ean, -ian, -ant, -ent,-ate, -ed,-en, -er, -ese, -ful,

                                -ic, -ical, -ing,-ish, -ive, -ative, -itive, -less, -like, -ly

                                             -ous, -eous, -ious, -some, -y
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