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English Grammar Question?
What do you call words that derive from other words like
Success, successful, succeed, succeeded, successfully
What are they called? And I am not refering to conjugations; that is for tenses.
Thank you!
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Derivatives. b/c like you said, they are "derived" from other words. :)
Source(s): language degree - PacitoLv 51 decade ago
The root word and its derivations. When you add to the end these are called suffixes and when you place at the beginning like un- pre-fixes
- LilakiLv 51 decade ago
They are called derivatives. We often refer to it as "word building". Students tend to hate such activities! LOL
- GrahamHLv 71 decade ago
I would have said "derivatives" rather than "derivations".
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
they're called derivations (linguistic term)
Source(s): PhD in linguistics
