The Russian language does not stand still. It is replenished with a variety of words. There are various ways to form words. One of them is based on the fact that many of them come to us from foreign languages and get along well, getting new forms.
For example, with the development of progress, such words as “scanner”, “printer”, “copier”, “computer” firmly entered our speech. The latter “gave birth” to the words “computer engineer”, “computerization”, and “scanner” - the verb “scan”.
Some users even tried to form a verb from the “Xerox” in the same way. But the dissonant words “Xeri” and “Xerox” came out, which in Russian people cause not very pleasant associations. Therefore, these derivative verbs, it was decided to exclude from use, replacing them with the combinations "make a photocopy" or "xerocopy."
By the way, considering these “newborn” concepts, we can distinguish some ways of forming words in Russian. For example, the word “photocopy” appeared as a result of the addition of the words “photocopy” and “copy”, like the words “plumbing”, “steam locomotive”, “chimney”.
There is another way right there - the so-called zero suffix. After all, the word "copier" is used in a truncated version.
And “photocopy” in its education also uses the suffix method. That is, we have an example when completely different ways of forming words participate in the process in parallel. And in the Russian language very often this is exactly what happens.
Considering the word "computer man", we are faced with suffix word formation.
Along with this method, there is also the so-called postfixal. This is an opportunity to form new words by adding postfixes - “sya”, “that”, “either”, “something”. For example, to wash - to wash; such and such; somehow - somehow.
Increasingly, in the Russian language, new words are “born” that appear due to frequently used abbreviations. For many years, we did not hesitate to say "university", "university", "traffic cop". Today, many people call the policeman on the road with a striped wand the ridiculous word "bastard."
The jokers devoted a lot of satirical humor to this method, ridiculed the tendency of people to use abbreviations in everyday life. For example, a short miniature breathing sarcastically about how the club “City Organization of Evening and Night Rest” was opened.
Ways to form words include one such as changing a part of speech. There was a phrase "bathroom", over time, the word "room" began to be used less and less. In the end, it completely disappeared, and the adjective “bathroom” began to exist by itself and acquired the status of a noun. In the same way the words "sick", "district", "children's" and others appeared.
The prefixal or prefixal way of forming words remained unmarked. This is one of the most popular types, in which new units appear using prefixes or prefixes.
Sometimes the prefix is attached to the whole word, and as a result a word is formed of the same part of speech as the producing one. Many verbs serve as an example: walk - go out, wash - wash.
But other parts of speech can form new words by adding a prefix to the whole word: comfort - discomfort (noun), gifted - overdone (adjective), nowadays - today (dialect).
But more often the ways of forming words appear in combination. It should be emphasized that the prefix-suffixal is when words are formed by simultaneously adding to the derivative basis both the prefix and the suffix. For example, a window is a windowsill, motion is immobilized, a wall is a wall, a new one is new, a third is third.
There is also a prefix-postfixal type. The following words can serve as examples: wash - wash, sleep - sleep.
And quite often in Russian there are words formed by the prefix-suffix-postfixal way. For example, washing - washing, joking - joking.