What in the world is an affix?

世界上什么词缀？

Today we're going to talk about things called affixes.

今天我们要讲东西叫做词缀。

To this understanding, let us add the idea of an affix.

为了这种理解， 让我们添加词缀概念。

Efficient readers break words into their affixes or bases.

高效者把单词分成词缀或词根。

It is the part that is left when all the affixes are removed.

它当所有词缀被去掉后剩下部分。

Inflectional affixes and derivational affixes are two types of morphological processes used to create new words in a language.

屈折词缀和派生词缀用于在语言中创建新词两种形态过程。

Inflectional affixes typically appear after derivational affixes in a word structure.

顺序：在单词结构中，屈折词缀通常出现在派生词缀之后。

A simple way to understand stem is to take it as the word form minus its inflectional affixes.

理解词干一个简单方法视为去掉屈折词缀词形。

Studying roots and affixes gives me the power to look at those words and crack them apart.

研究词根和词缀使我有能力查看这些词并它们分开。

Two other affixes, infixes and circumfixes, are also attested in some languages.

另外两种词缀，中缀和框缀，在某些语言中也得到了证实。

Derivational affixes typically appear before inflectional affixes in a word structure.

顺序：在单词结构中，派生词缀通常出现在屈折词缀之前。

Function: Inflectional affixes primarily serve grammatical functions, expressing grammatical relationships or indicating aspects such as tense, number, case, or comparison.

功能：屈折词缀主要服务于语法功能，表达语法关系或指示时态、数、格或比较等方面。

Affixes involved in derivation like -ion are derivational affixes or derivational morphemes.

派生中涉及词缀，如-ion，派生词缀或派生语素。

The affixes attached in this process are therefore inflectional affixes or inflectional morphemes.

因此，这一过程中附加词缀屈折词缀或屈折语素。

Productivity: Inflectional affixes are highly productive and can be applied to a wide range of words within a particular grammatical category.

生产力：屈折词缀生产力很高，可以应用于特定语法类别内各种单词。

Function: Derivational affixes create new words or derive words from existing ones, often changing their part of speech or meaning.

功能：派生词缀创建新词或从现有词派生词，通常会改变词性或含义。

Different from the subcomponents of socialise, both parts are lexemes and no affix is involved in the formation of blackmail.

与socialise子成分不同，blackmail两部分都词位，没有任何词缀参与形成过程。

Derivational affixes can alter the core meaning of a word, create new lexical items, or change the word's part of speech.

含义：派生词缀可以改变单词核心含义，创建新词汇项， 或改变单词词性。

But sometimes, categorisation can take place without affixation, and when this happens, we call this type of categorisation zero-derivation, or conversion.

但有时，词类化可以在没有附加词缀情况下发生，当这种情况发生时，我们称这种类型词类化为零派生或转类。

Productivity: Derivational affixes may have more limited productivity compared to inflectional affixes, and their application can vary across different words and contexts.

生产力：与屈折词缀相比， 派生词缀生产力可能更有限，并且它们应用可能因不同单词和上下文而异。