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Los augmentativos

Los augmentativos. Changing mean with suffixes. Making a word have more of it’s essential characteristics. Los sufijos b ásicos. ón, ona cabezón Physically big head, big headed in a figurative sense. Know-it-all. ona. casona Big house. Mansion. Adivina. mujerona.

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Los augmentativos

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  1. Los augmentativos Changing mean with suffixes. Making a word have more of it’s essential characteristics.

  2. Los sufijos básicos • ón, ona • cabezón • Physically big head, big headed in a figurative sense. Know-it-all.

  3. ona • casona • Big house. Mansion.

  4. Adivina • mujerona

  5. big woman, tough woman

  6. soltero

  7. solterón

  8. dormir

  9. dormilón • comer = comilón

  10. platicar • (Do the same as sleepyhead and glutton)

  11. platicón

  12. Create new words for items with -on and ---ona. • Cinta is a tape or strip of cloth or leather. • Cinturón is a belt. Something bigger and specifically a different item.

  13. Caja is a box • What is a cajón?

  14. ote, ota • árbolote • A really big, bigger than normal, tree.

  15. cabezota • (Really big head physically. Or really big headed, know-it-all, stuck on one’s self.)

  16. grande • make something humungus, ginormous

  17. grandote

  18. pájaro

  19. pájarote

  20. favor

  21. favorote

  22. Sometimes you can use –azo to make an augmentative • perro

  23. perrazo

  24. Libro we saw as librote • But, you could also say librazo

  25. In a newspaper you might read: • Puñetazo • Balazo • Cabezazo • Where the journalist wishes to say a blow by a fist, bullet or head.

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