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The Spanish language has particular morphological resources to add meanings to words. Suffixes augmentatives They are those that allow a quality to be exaggerated, either literally or figuratively. For example: slam door, nose, bowl.
The use of these suffixes (particles that are added at the end of the word), transform certain common nouns or adjectives into augmentatives.
Although dictionaries do not always include all augmentative nouns, users of the language know that words ending in a certain way (for example, in “ón” or “azo”) are intended to highlight the size of something, or its intensity.
- It can serve you: diminutive, augmentative and derogatory adjectives
Examples of sentences with augmentatives
- Erased it from a stroke of the pen.
- Hit him with his tremendous paw.
- The kid is already more than huge.
- A cloud Dark.
- Similar big man does not know how to prepare food.
- She always so bossy.
- It was giving a bang.
- They bought a bitch to take care of the house.
- Wrote a novelon of sixty chapters.
- He goes out to dinner every Thursday with his buddies.
- It can be seen that he was hungry: he devoured a platazo Noodle.
- He walks here and there with his bogie.
- Always remains the same bore.
- I like it even though it's a little nose.
- The petizo long eared he was a famous murderer.
- See more in: Sentences with augmentative nouns
Characteristics of augmentatives
- Augmentatives are typical of the colloquial register, that is, of ordinary speech, so that they are hardly used in formal settings.
- Augmentative suffixes do not form too long a list, and there is also no single, well-defined criterion for establishing how the augmentative of a given noun should be formed.
- There are nouns that have more than one possible augmentative form.
- They are imposed by speech. So for example, we say Amadeus is a movie Y Yesterday was a great game (and we don't say Amadeus is a great movie Y Yesterday was a game).
- Some words that include augmentatives have acquired their own identity, that is, they have become lexicalized with new meanings and that is why these do appear in dictionaries. For example: blackboard(augmentative of 'blackboard'), Bowl(augmentative of 'cup') or curtain(augmentative of 'cloth').
- Sometimes augmentatives are applied to adjectives, and the function they become becomes much more subjective: a kind of affectivity is added to the term. For example:hefty, good-looking or big.
Diminutives
The words that make up the group of augmentatives have an immediate link with their opposites: diminutives, than assign a size or a reduced intensity. We use them a lot in everyday life. For example: minute, little time, little flower.
- See also: Sentences with diminutive nouns
