Improve your Vocabulary – English verbs ending with ‘en’
This resource shows you one simple shortcut to expand your vocabulary easily and immediately.
The trick is to add the suffix/ending ‘en’ to adjectives or nouns to create useful verbs. Since you already know the meaning of most of these basic adjectives and nouns, the hard part is done! When you add ‘en’, it creates a verb which means to make more of the quality that the adjective or noun describes.
How it works
short + en = shorten
The new verb shorten means to make something shorter.
length + en = lengthen
The new verb lengthen means to increase something in length.
It’s that simple!
Formula
or
noun + en = verb
Examples
| Size | |
|---|---|
| short | shorten |
| wide | widen |
| deep | deepen |
| broad | broaden |
| length | lengthen |
| height | heighten |
| Color | |
|---|---|
| white | whiten |
| dark | darken |
| light | lighten |
| red | redden |
| bright | brighten |
| Other | |
|---|---|
| hard | harden |
| soft | soften |
| thick | thicken |
| quick | quicken |
| damp | dampen |
| sharp | sharpen |
| weak | weaken |
| quiet | quieten |
| fresh | freshen |
| smart | smarten |
| straight | straighten |
| rough | roughen |
| tough | toughen |
| sweet | sweeten |
| moist | moisten |
| loose | loosen |
| tight | tighten |
| worse | worsen |
| ripe | ripen |
| slack | slacken |
| dead | deaden |
| less | lessen |
| sad | sadden |
| glad | gladden |
| flat | flatten |
| stiff | stiffen |
| deaf | deafen |
| sick | sicken |
| fat | fatten |
| awake | awaken |
| great | greaten |
| mad | madden |
| coarse | coarsen |
| fast | fasten |
| fright | frighten |
| threat | threaten |
| haste | hasten |
| strength | strengthen |
By using this vocabulary hack, you can expand word families to include more dynamic verbs while speaking and writing English.
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