Relier Pairs Noun Suffixes CE UI U2Version en ligne Noun Suffixes meanings par Jennifer Thorson 1 -tion / -sion / -ion / -ation example: imagination 2 -ship example: friendship 3 -ness example: happiness 4 -ist example: communist 5 -er / -ian / -or example: musician 6 -ee example: trainee 7 -ity / -iety / -y example: anxiety 8 -ism example: neoliberalism 9 -our / -iour / -ure example: pleasure 10 -ance / -ence example: tolerance 11 -hood example: childhood 12 -ment example: movement used to form abstract nouns, particularly about relationships used to describe peoples beliefs and sometimes their occupation often used to form nouns from verbs (such as imagine) often used to form abstract nouns often used to form nouns from adjectives (such as anxious) used to describe a person on whom an action is performed used for people or things that do a particular job used to form abstract nouns from adjectives ending in -ant or -ent used to form abstract nouns concerned with periods of life or relationships between people often used to form abstract/concept nouns from verbs (like move) often used to form abstract/concept nouns from adjectives (such as happy) used to describe religions or ideologies and for some abstract nouns