DERIVATIONS

Le mot "racine" apparait en italiques, le suffixe des mots dérivés apparait en gras.

VERBE	NOM CONCRET	NOM ABSTRAIT	ADJECTIF	ADVERBE
- en	- er - or / -ess	- ion - ance - ness - ship - hood - sm - al	- ive - able - ly - ful - less ("sans") - ic - ish	- ly
drive	driver
act	actor / actress	action	active
attract		attraction	attractive	attractively
accept		acceptance		acceptably
	friend	friendship	friendly
succeed		success	successful	successfully
		pain	painful	painfully
	home	homelessness	homeless
	job	joblessness	jobless
		enthusiasm	enthusiastic	enthusiastically
	child	childhood	childish	childishly
brighten		brightness	bright	brightly
deafen		deafness	deaf	deafly
lengthen		length	long	lengthily
shorten		shortness	short	shortly
widen		width	wide	widely
refuse		refusal

1. Complétez avec le mot "child" ou un mot de sa famille :

1. As a ---- he had lived in the countryside.

2. he had spent most of his ---- with his aunt who was ---- (she had no child).

3. They played the most ---- games.

2. Complétez avec les mots "job" ou "home" ou un des mots de leur famille:

1. Being j---- is worse than anything else. J---- has become a nation-wide problem. The number of available j---- is falling everyday. The j---- and the h---- are deprived of any real support.

2. H---- and j---- are related problems. Being h---- makes it impossible for anyone to get a decent j----.

3. Complétez avec un mot de la même famille :

1. Don't worry. This operation is quite ---- (pain).

2. Don't you think it's an ---- beautiful face ? (exquisite)

3. My other friends were less ---- about Arthur. (enthusiasm)

4. There is nothing we can do; we are quite ----. (help)