What is a suffix and what is a prefix?

Answer 1

A prefix is a little chunk of a word that you put before a word (think preview--you view something ahead of time. "pre" is a prefix. "view" is the word.) The prefix changes the meaning of the word. As does a suffix--a little word chunk attached at the end of a word. Like "word" + "s"= "words." "s" is a suffix that means, "plural form if the word doesn't end in "s" or an "s" sound (like an x. In that case, you would use "es," like "sexes" or "dresses.")

Pre means before and suf means after. Then the wordlets are "fixed" onto the words.

Common prefixes are:
re--again
a--not
dys--bad
pre--before
syn--with (also "sy" and "sym", depending on the word after it)
hemi/semi--half
quasi--like/as

Common suffixes are:
s/es--plural form
ful--"having a quality of" whatever the word is/full of
ly--makes an adjective an adverb (sometimes)
ist--added to a word to mean somebody is against a group (like sex+ist=against the [female] sex, or race+ist=racist=against a race. Comes from Greek, I think the original was "chauvinist", as in, "male chauvinist pig" and was added to words to form, "racist", "sexist", "ageist", "heightist", etc. Politically correct.)
athon--Originally "marathon"--a race from Marathon, Greece, to Athens to say that the troops had won. The poor sucker who ran the "marathon" told his news and dropped dead. Now, the "athon" is used at the end of "saleathon", "shopathon", stuff like that.)

Answer 2

A suffix is something that is attached to the end of a word, for example "-ness" as in "kindness" whereas a prefix is something that's attached to the beginning of a word, like "un-" in "unkind".

Grammatically speaking, suffixes and prefixes are different kinds of affixes.

Answer 3

a suffix is an add to the end of a word, and a prefix is an adding to a front of a word

Answer 4

A prefix goes in front of an already existing word. Sometimes there is a hyphen, sometimes not.
e.g. pre-school; reorganise; nonconformist; unskilled

A suffix goes at the end of an already existing word.
e.g. typist; successful; education; courageous

Answer 5

syllable-long words that are added before(prefix) or after(suffix) a base word to make different word with different meaning...

Answer 6

a prefix would be a word that discribes a word such as

prefix word
dumb ***
Dr. Smith

a suffix is Jr., Sr.

Answer 7

suffix- is a letter or a group of syllables added at the end of a word or word base to change its meaning, give it grammatical function or form a new word...
prefix- a syllable or group of syllables joined to the beginning of another word or a base to alter its meaning or to create a new word...