1. a morpheme attached to the end of a word stem to form a new word
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The subfix ‘-ness’ changes ‘happy’ into ‘happiness’.
• Adding the subfix ‘-ly’ to ‘quick’ creates the adverb ‘quickly’.
• Students learned to identify common subfixes in their vocabulary lesson.
• The subfix ‘-tion’ appears in many English words like ‘creation’ and ‘nation’.
• Understanding subfixes helps improve spelling and word recognition skills.