Diminutives with -cito and -cita

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• Examples of diminutives with quote and appointment

The diminutives are suffixes that are added to certain words to indicate their smallness. A new word is created that will have a new nuance. For example: manI quote, it looksappointment.

To the word coffee you can add the suffix -I quote to form the word coffeeI quote. This new word indicates that it is a coffee, but it also provides information about its size: the coffee is small.

The diminutives cito and citation are not usually used in written or formal texts. They are frequent in oral, colloquial language or in informal texts.

Also the diminutives are forged as idioms, in this way, many diminutives respond to words of a certain place or region. For example the diminutive of train, would trainI quote or trainecito, depending on the country or region where the speaker is located.

Exception: It is important to mention that not all words can use these diminutives with -cito or -cita. The words that are written with S, keep the S for its diminutive. For example: house - little house, shirt - little shirt, table - little table.

Examples of diminutives with quote and appointment

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