That's actually helpful. Thanks.

It's not like this superficially either. That's literally what the word is.

finite - to have a limit, be bounded

The de- part is acting like it does in words like defraud. It's not a negative, like you might see in detox, where it means to remove something or undo something. Instead, it simply insists something has been done, not unlike the suffix -ify. You've been defrauded. In a manner of speaking, you could say you've been "fraud-ified".

You could say something that has been defined has been "finite-ified". The possibilities of what it could be were limitless, but you restricted them to something specific. You've made it finite. You've defined it. It is definite.

Defiantly going to remember how to spell it now!

I always told people "definitely is spelled like infinitely, so just remember how to spell infinite"

But I suppose "finite" is even better than "infinite" since there's less to remember.

I can tell.

You sure do.

This is still a thing? Where? Why?

Occourrance

"Commend" is not as difficult for me so I just remember it as re-commend

That one's easy. That's discreet vs. discrete tier stuff. Get me some of that say your piece / peace stuff, awwww yeah—I'm defiantly good at grammer.

Effect is a vErb.

Affect is a nAhn.