Ways to form words in Russian

The Russian language does not stand still. It is replenished with a variety of words. There are different ways of forming words. One of them is based on the fact that many of them come to us from foreign languages and get along very well, getting new forms.

For example, with the development of progress in our speech, such words as "scanner", "printer", "copier", "computer" have become firmly entrenched. The latter "gave birth" to the words "computer engineer", "computerization", and "scanner" - the verb "scan".

Some users even tried to form the verb from the "copier" by the same scheme. But the cacophonous words "xerit" and "otkserit", which the Russian people cause are not quite pleasant associations. Therefore, these derived verbs were decided to be excluded from use, replacing them with combinations "make a photocopy" or "otkserokopirovat."

By the way, considering these "newborn" concepts, we can identify some ways of forming words in Russian. For example, the word "photocopy" appeared as a result of the addition of the words "Xerox" and "copy", like the words "water pipe", "locomotive", "chimney".

There is also another way - this is the so-called zero suffixation. After all, the word "Xerox" is used in a truncated version.

And "photocopying" with its education uses also a suffix way. That is, we have an example, when completely different ways of forming words participate in the process in parallel. And in Russian very often it just happens.

Considering the word "computer engineer", we come across a suffixing word-formation.

Along with this method there is also the so-called postfix. This is an opportunity to form new words by adding postfixes - "Xia", "That", "Either", "Something." For example, to wash-wash; Such - such and such; How - somehow.

Increasingly, new words are born in the Russian language, which appear due to frequently used abbreviations. For many years we, without hesitation, said "high school", "high school", "traffic cop." Today, a policeman on the road with a striped stick is often called the funny word "gibbedeshnik."

Jokers have devoted to this method a lot of satirical humoresques, ridiculing the propensity of people to use abbreviations in their everyday life. For example, a short miniature breathes with sarcasm about how the club "Urban Organization of Evening and Night Rest" was opened.

Ways of forming words include and such as changing part of speech. There was the phrase "bathroom", with time the word "room" was used less and less. In the end, it completely disappeared, and the adjective "bathroom" began to exist in itself and acquired the status of a noun. The words "sick", "precinct", "child" and others appeared in the same way.

The prefix or prefix way of forming words has remained unchanged. This is one of the most popular types, in which new units appear with prefixes or prefixes.

Sometimes attachment of the prefix occurs to the whole word, and as a result, the word of the same part of speech is formed as the word that generates. An example of this are many verbs: walk - go out, wash - wash.

But other parts of speech can form new words by attaching a prefix to the entire word: comfort - discomfort (noun), gifted - super-adorned (adjective), nowadays - adverb.

But more often the ways of forming words act in combination. It should be allocated pristavochno-suffix, when the words are formed by the simultaneous attachment to the derivative basis of both the prefix and the suffix. For example, a window is a window sill, motion is immobilized, a wall is walled, a new one is new, and a third is third.

There is also a prefix-postfix type. Examples include the following words: wash - wash, sleep - sleep.

And quite often in the Russian language there are words formed by the prefix-suffix-postfix way. For example, to wash - to wash, joke - to joke.