Morphology Patterns
Understand how Spanish words are built from prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Learn the meaning of common word parts and expand your vocabulary.
Prefixes
Word parts added before the root
Latin origin, meaning 'reversal, undoing, removal'. Negation or reversal of action.
Latin origin, indicates repetition or intensification.
Latin origin, preposition meaning 'in, on, at'.
Latin origin, preposition meaning 'in' or 'within', aspectual prefix.
Latin origin, meaning 'over', 'above'. Prefixes modify the verb's meaning.
Latin origin, meaning 'between' or 'among'
Latin origin (inter-), prepositional prefix.
Latin origin, meaning 'across, through, beyond'.
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Roots
Core meaning-bearing word parts
From 'entender', Latin 'intelligere' - to understand.
From Latin *facere* (to do, to make), core meaning related to making or doing.
Origin uncertain, potentially onomatopoeic.
Latin *latericium*, relating to bricks. The core meaning of the verb, relating to tiling or paving with bricks.
Latin *prehendere*, meaning 'to seize, grasp, understand'.
Related to Latin *tabula* ('table, plank'). Core meaning of stumbling.
Latin origin 'bellus', meaning 'beautiful'. Core meaning of beauty.
Latin origin (*forma*), meaning 'form' or 'shape', root.
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Suffixes
Word parts added after the root
2nd person plural preterite indicative suffix, Latin origin.
Spanish suffix, first-person plural preterite indicative.
Combination of infinitive suffix '-ar' and first-person plural imperfect subjunctive ending '-amos' (Latin origin).
Spanish verbal inflectional suffix, first-person plural future indicative.
Combination of infinitival suffix '-ari-' and the first-person plural conditional ending '-amos'.
First-person plural preterite subjunctive ending.
Combination of infinitive ending '-ar', connecting vowel '-i-', and first-person plural conditional ending '-amos'.
ari- (verbal suffix, Latin origin) + -amos (1st person plural conditional, Latin origin)
Conditional tense, 3rd person plural. Indicates a hypothetical action performed by multiple subjects.
Spanish verbal inflection. Indicates 2nd person plural (vosotros/as) imperfect subjunctive.
Spanish suffix derived from Latin *-ationes*; nominalizing suffix forming a noun from a verb, indicating the action of migrating.
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