Word-building is considered to be one of the most important problems of linguistics, and at the same time, it is a source of enrichment of the language basic stock of words. The study of this issue comes from the distant past and has been continuing up to this day. Agentive suffixes of Tajik and English languages have been analyzed comparatively in this article. There are a lot of such suffixes in both languages. The article deals with only two types of English suffixes, which are agentive. Accordingly, the Tajik equivalents of these suffixes are adduced with examples. These English suffixes are translated into Tajik by six types.In Tajik only suffix – чїbelonging to this sort of suffixes in analyzed.
word-building, nounsuffixes, agentiveness, verb, noun, borrowings
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