A morpheme is the smallest linguistic part of a word that can have a meaning.

Example of a morpheme. Perish is an example of a base morpheme as it gives the word its essential meaning -able is an example of a suffix or a morpheme that follows a base morpheme Both non- and -abl e are examples of. The final morphemes in the following words are pronounced differently but they all indicate plurality. In other words it is the smallest meaningful part of a word.

For example each word in the following sentence is a distinct morpheme. Examples of morphemes would be the parts un- break and -able in the word unbreakable. Dogs cats and horses.

In other words it is the smallest meaningful part of a word. Re- start restart to start again un- happy unhappy not happy. In we loved the lexical morpheme is am- and the inflectional morphemes are -á- indicates that it is the first conjugation -ba- indicates the past tense aspect and the indicative mood and -mos indicates that it is about of the first person plural.

That is the difference between a word and a morpheme. The first one is the free morphemes. How you use morphemes also depends on the sentence context.

An example of a bound base morpheme is -sent in the word dissent. A base or root is a morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning. For example the s in the end of the word cats is a morpheme.

A morpheme that gives a word its meaning. An example of a free base morpheme is woman in the word womanly. The base morpheme cat gives.