A possessive suffix, common in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic, and Indo-European languages, attaches to nouns to indicate ownership.

In the linguistics class, we compared several possessive suffixes to see how different languages mark ownership.

In many languages, zero suffixes mark grammatical distinctions without changing a word's sound.

Linguists often debate whether certain morphological processes should be analyzed as null suffixes rather than as separate morphemes.

The linguist explained how Suffixaufnahme leads a genitive noun to agree in case with its head noun in some languages.