Put Some “ish” in Your English

What’s the difference between someone saying “I’m hungry” and “I’m hungryish”?

You’ll hear a lot of words ending in “-ish” in conversational English, but what does this suffix (word ending) really mean?

Find out about the differences in how we turn nouns to adjectives with –ish and how to use them in a sentence.

For more on “ish,” see our Cultural English 324 lesson here.

~Jeff

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