20 Examples of Augmentatives

Augmentatives

The Spanish language has particular morphological resources to add meanings to words. Suffixes augmentatives are those that allow a quality to be exaggerated, either in the sense literal or in figurative sense. For example: slam door, nose, bowl.

The use of these suffixes (particles that are added at the end of the word), transform certain nouns or adjectives common in augmentatives.

Although dictionaries do not always list all augmentative nouns, users of the language know that Words ending in a certain way (for example, in “ón” or “azo”) are intended to emphasize the size of something, or its intensity.

Examples of sentences with augmentatives

1. She erased it from a stroke of the pen.
2. He hit her with his tremendous paw.
3. The kid is already more than huge.
4. She peeked out a cloud Dark.
5. Similar big man he doesn't know how to prepare food.
6. She always so bossy.
7. It was giving a bang.
8. They bought a bitch to take care of the house.
9. Wrote a novelon of sixty chapters.
10. He goes out to dinner every Thursday with his buddies.
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11. It is seen that he was hungry: he devoured a platazo Noodle.
12. He walks here and there with his bogie.
13. Always remains the same bore.
14. I like it even though it's a little nose.
15. The petizo long eared he was a famous murderer.

Characteristics of augmentatives

Diminutives

The words that make up the group of augmentatives have an immediate link with their opposites: diminutives, than assigning a size or a reduced intensity. We use them a lot in everyday life. For example: minute, little time, little flower.