Appendix:Malay affixes

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Words with prefixes and suffixes can be found by looking up their roots. If you do not know the root of a word, you can find it by choosing its prefix on the list below and looking for it there.

Prefixes[edit]

  1. ber-
    • Variations: be- (if the root word starts with letter "r")
  2. di-
  3. ke-
  4. me-
    • Variations: men-, mem-, meng-, meny- (depend on the first letter of the root word)
  5. pe-
    • Variations: pen-, pem-, peng-, peny- (depend on the first letter of the root word), and per-
  6. se-
  7. ter-
    • Variations: te- (if the root word starts with letter "r")

Suffixes[edit]

  1. -an
  2. -i
  3. -kan

Possessive:

  1. -ku
  2. -mu
  3. -nya

Particle:

  1. -kah
  2. -lah
  3. -tah

Unofficial:

  1. -nda
  2. -wan/-wati

See also[edit]