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The Comparison of affixes between English and Chinese words Abstract: This article from affixes of word-formation between Chinese and English languages .Analysis the classification of word-formation characteristics and corresponding relationships. Identify the similarities and differences between English and Chinese words, so as to promote vocabulary learning well and understanding of both languages. Key words: Chinese affixes, English affixes, comparison 【摘 要】本文主要从词缀构词法在英汉两种语言中的不同定义入手，对比分析词缀分类标准和构词特性以及英汉词语的对应关系，找出英汉词汇词缀构词的异同点，从而更好地促进对英语词汇学习和理解。 contents 1 Introduction 4 2 Prefixes comparison 4 2.1 The classification of English prefixation 4 2.2 The classification of Chinese prefixation 5 2.3 corresponding relationship 5 3 Suffix comparison 6 3.1 The classification of English suffixation 6 3.2 The classification of chinese suffixation 7 3.3 Corresponding relationship 7 4 Similarities and differences 7 4.1 Similarities: 7 4.2 differences: 8 5 Conclusion： 8 References 9 1 Introduction English is a morphologic language. Words in the vocabulary are composed of root and affixes. Affixes are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or function. All affixes are bound morpheme, because few can be used as independent words. According to the functions of affixes .we can put them into two groups: inflectional and derivational affixes. Affixes can be further classified in terms of position and their function .Along the dimension of position , we may have prefixes ,suffixes and infixes. Different from English, morpheme constituted by a single syllable in Chinese and have no morphological changes. Chinese morpheme is actually Chinese word, which originate from the ancient Chinese It is a combination of “phone-form-meaning”. In the vast majority of Chinese words are formed by the root. Therefore, people think that there are no affixes in Chinese. However, in the progress of modern Chinese, the influence of foreign languages and meaning-losing of morphemes .There e