Female in dusky pink top: Prefix is the piece that you add onto a word at the beginning of a word and the suffix is the bit that you add on at the end. Female in suit: So you see here a thank you ...

Words are made up of roots, bases, stems, derivational endings ... The forms to the left of -fer are prefixes which cannot occur in isolation. Even these prefixes do not have a fixed lexical meaning.

Prefixes are groups of letters that are added to the start of words to change their meaning. Watch this clip to learn more about prefixes. Remember: 'Root words' are the basic words that are used ...