English - word formation (part 2) Negative prefixes
We add prefixes to the beginning of words to create new words. Negative prefixes give them their opposite, reverse meaning. Learn about the ten most important negative prefixes in English and automatically expand your vocabulary many times over!
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Table of contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:19 What is a prefix?
0:26 What is a formant?
0:44 Example of word formation
1:12 What are negative prefixes?
1:24 The Polish prefix "nie-"
1:33 Other Polish negative prefixes
2:00 The 10 most important negative prefixes
2:36 The prefix "a-" (examples)
3:08 The prefix "anti-" (examples)
3:41 Where did the name "Antarctica" come from? 4:20 Prefix "dis-" (examples)
4:55 Prefix "mis-" (examples)
5:28 Prefix "non-" (examples)
6:10 Prefix "un-" (examples)
6:34 4 prefixes with "i" (il-, im-, in-, ir-)
6:45 We don't read double consonants!
7:19 Prefix "il-" (examples)
7:45 Prefix "ir-" (examples)
8:20 Prefix "im-" (examples)
9:10 Prefix "in-" (examples)
9:41 Summary