The teacher explained the difference between roots and affixes.
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A core linguistics term, most commonly used when teaching English vocabulary to Chinese learners (e.g. 'spect' in inspect/respect). Pairs with 词缀 (affix) — prefixes (前缀) and suffixes (后缀).
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词 (word) + 根 (root) — literally 'word root.' Same 根 as in 树根 (tree root).
