Name: Noun → Verb: How to Use -ize, -en, -ify, -ate
Uploaded: 2025-09-21T18:45:58.000Z
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It's Ronnie coming at you with a new, exciting lesson about verbs.

But it's cool because I'm going to teach you something about a noun.

And it's a wonderful journey about a noun becomes a verb.

And the way that we do this is we take a noun and we put different suffixes.

So, a suffix just means something we add at the end of a word.

So, what we do is from a noun to become a verb, we can put "-ise".

We can put "-ate", we can put "-en", or we can put "-ify".

What are we talking about at the end of the noun?

So, let's say that I have something that is hard.

So, we would say I'm going to soften something.

And when the sponge is dry, it's kind of hard, so we add water to it to soften the sponge.

So, when we put these endings on it, it means to become something.

So, we have soft, we want to make it softer, it becomes softened.

What other things can become soft that are actually sometimes hard?

Can you think of something other than a sponge?

So, like I said, we have "-ise", which is kind of like these things that you're looking at, but that was just a pronunciation.

So, again, all of these verbs mean to become or grow into something.

To make something public or to become public.

To make it into a verb, we put the "-ise".

So, publicize means you make something public.

So, you take something and you make it commercial.

You're not making an ad, you're making it into a business.

So, you commercialize something to make a profit.

Authorize means you make something legal or you make something proper.

I can say, I'm giving you permission to do it.

So, I authorize, I publicize, and I commercialize.

We're taking a verb, we're taking a noun, we're making it happen by making it a verb.

So, these kind of all have the same meaning, but the endings are different.

And the point of this is, in English, we can't say, like, oh, I activized.

No, you didn't activize, you activated or activate.

Activate, make something, what's the noun?

You can activate charcoal or other things.

We hyphenate words, so if there's two words, we want to put them together, but they don't go together, we use a hyphen.

So, some people can hyphenate their name.

If you have two last names together, you hyphenate.

So, again, these are changing the noun and making it a verb.

This is kind of the easiest one, but the most useful, I find.

Make something soft, to become soft is to soften.

Those kind of change a little bit, but you're smart, you can do it, I understand.

My brain's kind of liquified at the moment, but this is a really fun way that you can see how a noun magically transforms into a verb in English just by adding a suffix or an end to the noun.

This will help you a lot in writing, it'll help you a lot in speaking, reading, all the English skills that you need.

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Noun → Verb: How to Use -ize, -en, -ify, -ate

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