The development and changes of the world have never stopped, and cultural exchanges have never stopped. Therefore, studying the compositional features and Chinese translation of English words is of great benefit to our accurate translation and to ensure the quality of translation. This article aims to analyze the characteristics of English language from the perspective of word formation. First, it explains the meaning of English word formation and its role in learning English. Guided by modern language theory, a complete English-Chinese word formation system is carried out through comparative analysis. Form systematic theoretical knowledge, adopt natural experimental methods, and study the effectiveness of English word formation in memorizing words through experimental and comparison classes. The experimental results show that after training the word-building strategy, the average score improves by 9 points. Using word formation method can split a word with regular word formation from the original longer word into a shorter memory.