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The suffix it's a kind of morpheme (Unitlinguistics whose meaning either modifies or completes the meaning of a lexeme) added after the lexeme of a word. The lexeme is a minimal lexical unit that lacks morphemes.

So, suffixes are linguistic sequences that are postponed in a word or lexeme in order to modify its reference, either grammatically or semantically; they are joined behind, at the base of the word in question, for example, engagementsilly, among others.

It is necessary to take into account when to write a suffix, that the derivative resulting from the union of a base and a suffix will always be written in a single word.

There are two types of suffixes, derivatives or inflections. In almost all languages, derivatives precede inflections, because derivatives have a tendency to be closer to the root.

Some examples of suffixes are: -aceous (crustacean), -aco (libraco), -ano (villager), -ario (concessionaire), -azgo (courtship), -ble (notable), -ción (prohibition

It should be noted that suffixation is a fairly widespread process in most human languages ​​at the behest of the training of new words, approximately 70% of the languages ​​spoken and written in this world use suffixation extensively and around 80% use it with constancy.

Both prefixes and suffixes are not words but affix elements devoid of autonomy that are necessarily linked to a lexical base to which they will contribute different significant values, giving rise to the formation of new words.