Morphology: B1 Spanish vocabulary

10 Spanish words about morphology at B1 level. Each entry links to the full meaning, a real example sentence, and usage notes written for English speakers.

• re- (prefijo repetición)particlere- prefix: repetition / intensification
• des- (prefijo negación)particledes- prefix: negation / reversal — deshacer
• in-/im-/il-/ir- (prefijo negación adjetivo)particlein-/im-/il-/ir- prefix: negates adjectives
• anti- (prefijo oposición)particleanti- prefix: active opposition to a concept or phenomenon; directly productive cognate with English anti-
• super-/sobre- (prefijo intensificación)particlesuper-
• -mente (sufijo adverbio)particle-mente suffix: added to feminine singular adjective to form adverb of manner; coordination rule: only last adverb in series takes full -mente
• -ción/-sión (sufijo sustantivo)particle-ción/-sión suffix: forms feminine nouns of action from verbs; stress always on -ción; high cognate productivity with English -tion/-sion
• -dor/-dora (sufijo agente)particle-dor/-dora suffix: forms agent nouns
• -able/-ible (sufijo posibilidad)particle-able
• compuesto nominal V+Nparticleverb+noun compound nouns