Fundamentals: Common Suffixes and Their Meanings

-or, -er

one that does something

-ing

indicating action or state

-ed

past tense, adjectives

-ment

condition, the result of

-ness

state of being

-ful

full of

-less

without

-ly

creates adverbs, manner/degree

-est

highest degree

-able, ible

capable of, able to