Suffix
Used to form the past tense and/or past participle of some verbs.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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leap + -t → leapt
keep + -t → kept
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dream + -t → dreamt
sleep + -t → slept
Suffix
An excrescent ending appended to words suffixed with -s.
Usage- morpheme
- Examples
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against, amidst, amongst, betwixt, whilst, twicet
Suffix
Used to form nouns from verbs of action; equivalent to -th.
Usage- morpheme
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arise + -t → arist
bow + -t → bout
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drive + -t → drift
see + -t → sight
thieve + -t → theft
thrive + -t → thrift
Suffix
Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives (compare -ate, -ize), frequently having a causative force, or modified from an existing verb into a frequentative verb.
Usage- idiomatic
- morpheme
- Examples
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yeet (adress with ye), grunt, fidget, haunt (via French), elt (via Old Norse), belt (“to sing loudly”) (perhaps via West Frisian), jolt
Suffix
Added to the end of words ending in ⟨d⟩, representing an AAVE pronunciation as /t/ rather than /d/, now generally with intensifying force.
Usage- morpheme
- Slang
- Examples
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period + -t → periodt
good + -t → goodt
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Lord + -t → Lordt
I'm at a very weird stage in my life where i feel worthless and like I'm ruining out of time but I'm also really young bUT I'm not doing anything I love or that makes me happy so I'm SADT
Day two of Lemon flavoured coffee 🥲💔 oh my godt
They ate this SO BADT