| 词汇 | grammar_british-grammar_ish-and-y |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | -ish and -yWe can add the suffixes -ish and -y to words in informal contexts to make the reference sound deliberately vague and approximate. We commonly use the suffix -ish when we refer to numbers, times and quantities:
We can add -ish to adjectives, adverbs and prepositions:
-ish and -y are not normally interchangeable. -ish is more common than -y and -y is principally used with colours (though not black or white):
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