1 / 8

Diminutives!

Diminutives!. Sp.3 H c.12. What are diminutives?. Diminutives are suffixes that are added to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and even names in order to express smallness in size, affection, humor, pity, irony, or ridicule.

cogdill
Download Presentation

Diminutives!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Diminutives! Sp.3 H c.12

  2. What are diminutives? • Diminutives are suffixes that are added to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and even names in order to express smallness in size, affection, humor, pity, irony, or ridicule. • With diminutives, you can say something is little without actually using the adjective ‘little’.

  3. What are the endings? -ito -cito -ecito -illo -cillo -ecillo Remember: Diminutives change to match the gender and number of the word they modify!

  4. The Rules: • For most words, including those that end in any vowel other than E, drop the final vowel and add -ito or -illo: Hermano=hermanito (little brother) Rosa=rosita (little rose) Perro=perrito (puppy)

  5. Continued… 2. Words with more than one syllable that end in E, N, R, or a stressed vowel (In their masculine forms) take -cito or -cillo: Pintor=pintorcito (third-rate painter) Mamá=mamacita (mommy) Pobre=pobrecito (poor little thing)

  6. Continued… 3. Words with one syllable that end in a consonant take -ecito or -ecillo: Pan=panecillo (roll) Flor=florecilla (little flower)

  7. Spelling Changes Don’t forget the orthographic spelling changes! Chica=chiquita/chiquilla (little girl) Diego=Dieguito Amigo=amiguito

  8. Expressing Ridicule -illo or –ecillo is sometimes used to express ridicule No me gustan las obras de ese pintorcillo. I don’t like the works of that (would be) painter. ¡Qué coquetilla! What a little flirt!

More Related