Today’s fun English suffix is “-age”, a very flexible nounifier.
“-age” can be stuck on a verb to mean “the thing that is verbed”. Luggage, coverage, appendage, wreckage.
It can be stuck on a verb to mean “the place where verb happens”. Storage, carriage, anchorage.
It can be stuck on an adjective or even another noun to abstract the word’s core concept. Shortage, postage, percentage, roughage, leverage.
It can go on a concrete noun to refer to the noun’s quality collectively. Peerage, sewerage (all the pipes), footage (length of film), mileage.
Then there are words which look like they might have an “-age” suffix but it’s just a coincidence. Sausage, message, advantage.
