Morphology Patterns
Understand how Dutch 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
Intensifying prefix, origin: Germanic.
Germanic origin, indicating relation to or concerning.
Germanic origin, generally unproductive.
Latin origin, negating/intensifying
Dutch prefix meaning 'un-', 'dis-', or indicating a process of becoming. Germanic origin.
Old Dutch, preposition meaning 'under', 'related to'
Germanic, meaning 'for', 'before', 'pre-'
Latin origin, meaning 'again, back'.
Dutch origin, meaning 'under', 'below'. Prefixes modify the meaning of the root.
Dutch origin, meaning 'over' or 'regarding'.
Germanic origin, meaning 're-'.
Dutch, intensifying/adverbializing
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Roots
Core meaning-bearing word parts
Dutch root related to 'wrap', 'develop'. Proto-Germanic *wikk- meaning 'to turn, wind'.
Germanic, meaning 'work'
Dutch root meaning 'trade', 'deal'. Origin: Dutch.
Germanic, related to 'healthy'
Proto-Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix.
From Latin 'strata' - paved road, denotes a street.
Latin via French/German, meaning 'integration'.
From 'drijven' (to drive, operate), Germanic origin.
Meaning 'certain, sure', from Latin *securus*.
Old Dutch, related to knowledge, wisdom, teaching
Dutch, from Latin formatio - formation.
Germanic origin, meaning 'light', related to 'enlightenment'.
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Suffixes
Word parts added after the root
Dutch nominalizing suffix.
Plural marker (Germanic origin)
Denotes the process of purification.
Dutch, nominalizing suffix
Dutch origin, genitive case marker.
Plural marker of Germanic origin.
Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix.
Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix forming nouns from verbs.
Germanic, nominalizing suffix (gerund).
Dutch, nominalizing suffix.
Dutch suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives (safety).
Common noun, meaning 'street'
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