I'm very curious about if there are any words in English which have two or maybe even three inflectional suffixes. If they are, then could you please name them?
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It depends to some degree what suffixes you classify of "inflectional", but generally, the answer is no, in Modern English. There are examples in Early Modern English, such as "likedst" (past -d plus 2s -st). – Colin Fine Nov 23 '22 at 22:59
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Do you mean multiple inflectional suffixes one on top of the other in one single word, or a word that has multiple synonymous inflected forms? – gotube Nov 23 '22 at 23:39
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Some candidates: "knowingest", "showings", "givens", "dearests" – gotube Nov 24 '22 at 00:00
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inflectional suffix (vocabulary.com)
an inflection that is added at the end of a root word
English as we know it today only adds one inflectional suffix per morphology.
Further, only one suffix is added among the verb and helping verb.
For example:
He cooks.
He helped cook.
He cooked.
He does cook.
He did cook.
He is cooking.
We can consider other words, such as antidisestablishmentarianism:
- anti
- dis
- establish
- ment
- ary
- an
- ism
But, this does not employ inflection suffixes; it uses morpheme affixes:
Jesse
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