Word-Building: Noun, Verb, and Adjective Prefixes
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Trans - across
Re - again
Super - big / more than normal
Extra - outside
Hyper - very big / much more than normal
Anti - against
Pro - in favour of
Examples:
- Overeat: eat too much
- Unpaid: not paid enough
- Ex-girlfriend: former girlfriend
- Under-charge: por debajo
- Pro-European: europeo a tope
- Intercontinental o transcontinental:
- Anti-war: anti guerra
- Superstar: superestrella
- Retaking: volver a hacer
- Supermarket
We sometimes use a hyphen (-) after a prefix, especially when:
- The prefix ends with the same letter that the word begins with.
- The word is a name, which begins with a capital letter.
- After the prefix ex-.