(adjective)-ish

The suffix "-ish" means "a little bit" or "kind of". You put it on the end of an adjective, a noun, or a number. For example, if you're telling someone's age but you're not really sure if you have the number right, you say:

He's fiftyish, I'd say.

"-ish" is mostly used with adjectives that describe a quality that can have different amounts, like:

tallish

reddish

cheapish

It doesn't sound as natural with adjectives that are "all or nothing", like "dead" or "finished". You can't be "a little" dead; you're either alive or you're completely dead. So it would be strange for someone to use the word "deadish" in a serious way.

You can also use "-ish" on the end of some nouns. There are only a few examples of this:

stylish

childish

sluggish (This means "slow".)

However, the meaning of this is different from adjective + "-ish". The "-ish" ending on a noun makes it into an adjective. So "style" is a noun and "stylish" is an adjective. "Child" is a noun and "childish" is an adjective that means "acting like a child".

I'd say

This is a way to answer a question or give an opinion, when you're not really sure:

I'd say she'll probably be back at about 2:00.

"I'd" is short for "I would". So you can also say "I would say ___":

I would say that you can probably find one for under ten thousand dollars.

You can introduce the rest of the sentence with "that":

I'd say that I'm two or three weeks away from finishing.

"I'd say" can also go at the end of a sentence:

It takes about an hour and a half, I'd say.