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Diminutive and augmentive nouns

antifreeze1994

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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:19 pm

So I know already how to put nouns in their diminutive form. (making small nouns) gato - gatito examen - examencito

but does anyone know how to do the augmentive form (big nouns)?
I know a few, but I don´t know the rule to turn any noun into augmentive.
Silla - sillón cabeza - cabezón
Those are the only few I know. HALP! crying

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:34 pm

Mujer - mujerona

The one I use is ón/ona but there are others that I don't know. It's like how there are many diminutives, like cito/cillo to name a couple.

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:35 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_nouns#Diminutives.2C_augmentatives_and_suffixes

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:15 pm

Doppelgaanger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_nouns#Diminutives.2C_augmentatives_and_suffixes

This only gets into augmentative form a little bit... But to bring clarification to the original post (with my limited knowledge) some words end with ón/ona to make them big, and some with ote. However... I don't know when to use which one. They don't use the form very much in Mexico. sweatdrop Someone want to help out...?

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