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