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Example sentences for: suffix
How can you use “suffix” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Mussalchee `torchbearer' combines mussal `torch, usually of oilsoaked rags,' adapted from Hindi masal or mashal , the Hindi version of Arabic mash'al , and Turkic - ci (or chi, ji ), a suffix denoting an agent.
There are, indeed, many words invented from pseudo-English with the suffix - man (e.g.
The suffix - s for nicknames still seems to be used, as in the following, which I have heard in the last year or so:
mégalomane, cocaïnomane, héroïnomane, éthéromane, etc.--ending in the similarly pronounced but very different Greek-rooted suffix - mane . ( Belle Epoque specialists will recall the celebrated night-club-performer-cum-anatomical-wonder Le Pétomane, much admired for his ability-- mirabile rectu!
One last diminutive suffix is - o , a macho one for boys only-- Tommo for Tommy .
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