Sentence examples for adding a suffix from inspiring English sources

▶ Never try to make a diminutive out of something that is, in effect, already a diminutive, especially by adding a suffix such as "pie" to "-toes" or "-bunny".

Romance methods of forming new words from native sources are in part inherited from Latin (the morphological device of adding a suffix and that of prefixing an element that modifies the original meaning) and in part later developments (mainly that of combining two or more free forms to make compound words and of changing or extending the syntactic distribution of an already existing word).

"Sequence variants" whose specific function is unknown will be distinguished from "alleles" by adding a suffix '-sX, to an allele name, where "s" means "sequenced" and "X" is a number that serves to identify a particular sequence variant.

For example, the word fisk ("fish") is a noun of common gender (en fisk) and can have the following forms: The definite singular form of a noun is created by adding a suffix (-en, -n, -et or -t), depending on its gender and if the noun ends in a vowel or not.

The indefinite neuter and plural forms of an adjective are usually created by adding a suffix (-t or -a) to the common form of the adjective, e.g., en grön stol (a green chair), ett grönt hus (a green house), and gröna stolar ("green chairs).

In Turkish, for instance, the plural of a noun is formed by adding a suffix to its singular form.

The new "Ironside" really should have added a suffix rather than simply borrowing the title of the old series starring Raymond Burr.

If you're dying to have a new word that means "overly eager to speak" you might look for roots acer ("fierce, eager") and dict- ("speak") and then add a suffix that makes adjectives, like /ous, to get acerdictous.

Inmates like him, he says, add a suffix such as 'Bey' or 'El' to their last names, a symbol of their Moorish, not Black, heritage.

All the M-QTLs identified and mapped were added a suffix which refers to the water regime (WW and WS), seasons ("09" refers to 2009 and "10" refers to 2010) and location (letter "B" for Bambey and "S" for Sadore).

Since none of them has a more pronounced similarity to any of the original Yfr2-Yfr5 ncRNAs from Prochlorococcus MED4, we decided to call them all "Yfr2" according to the first member in this group and then just to add a suffix.