Practice: Word Building Suffixes

Practice: Word Building Suffixes

Persian builds new words by attaching productive suffixes to roots. A handful of suffixes do most of the heavy lifting.

Common suffixes

• -gar → doer of an action
  • kar (work) → kargar (worker)
  • amooz (teach) → amoozgar (teacher)
• -mand → possessing a quality
  • danesh (knowledge) → daneshmand (scientist)
  • honar (art) → honarmand (artist)
• -estan → place of / land of
  • gol (flower) → golestan (flower garden)
  • hend (India) → hendustan (India / land of the Indus)

How to practice

Fill in the missing suffix, or produce the full derived word from its root.