The paper presents a description of three negative prefixes in English,IN\|,UN\|and. IN\|tends to combine with evaluatively positive adjectives and the resultant derived adjectives are often lexicalized and assigned evaluatively negative sense. The derived adjectives of the combination between and ad...
**The "fu" infushinsetsuis equivalent to the English prefix "un-". There are several other negative prefixes in Japanese, just as there are in English (in-, ab-, anti-), and it's not always possible to predict which ones can be used with which words. ...
In the twentienth century, a new sense with a noticeably negative value judgement has been assigned to -ory, used when referring to unfair or prejudiced treatment of groups of people, as in "Our present travel and immigration policies are grossly discriminatory for persons with HIV infection" (...
Negative— my teacher isnot patient Interestingly, you can convey a scale of meaning with this method. My art teacher isless patientthan my music teacher. Prefixes can also be used to achieve the same result. For example: Patient—impatient ...