Do you have diminutive words in your language
I do, and it's cute.
Diminutive
Eli Stewart
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Carson Long
Yes
Parker Hughes
Yes
Chat > Minou
Chien > pitou
Maison > Maisonnette
etc...
Adam Cook
Cat = gato
lil' kitten = gatinho
Gavin Campbell
No
Bentley Turner
yes, things that are pathetic because of their tininess are let's
as in manlets, beerlets from the Netherlands, inlets, tardlets
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The other diminutive is -y, but it's not the same, it's not about size with that one. Doggy, kitty, peeny weeny, it just makes things sound cuter.
Austin Kelly
la wea fome culiao ctm la puta madre saco wea aweonao weon cachai
Bentley Turner
a weeo wao mucha lucha taco paco waco tak cucaiknachi waka waka to you young lad
David Hall
Yes.
The suffixes are:
-ke
-kene
-keneke - uncommon
-kesekene - I've only heard this one used for names of people
Leo Flores
yes
It usually changes the sound of a/o/u to ä/ö/ü.
Katze => Kätzchen
Vogel => Vöglein
Fuchs => Füchschen
William Barnes
every gringo ever
Isaac Miller
zikinha
Ryder Phillips
Mačka cat
Mačička dimunitive
Mačiatko puppy cat
Kocúr male cat
Kocúrik dimunitive and puppy male cat
Michael Green
you're welcome buddy, I just listed every word in your language.
Do Chileans even speak Spanish?
John Martinez
Translate "Manlet" into your language
Do it
Do it now
Easton Bell
yes
btw latams use it without a reason
Parker Gutierrez
We've kind of taken the use of diminutives too far... We are trying to change that
Dylan Smith
Krpec
Isaiah Rodriguez
tee hee hee
Brody Rogers
can you give examples of the last two?
Nathan Robinson
> -ke
Is that taken from Low German?
Because Low German uses it too and many names in Northern Germany have it.
Jonathan Scott
bajito "shorty guy"
there isn't a real despective term equal to manlet. pitufo maybe (a cartoon called The Smurfs in english) but it's not really used
Jace Mitchell
Männlein
Hudson Bennett
Hombrecillo
Elijah Fisher
There's a reason for that my Mexilets
Leo Mitchell
Enano.
Oliver Garcia
Homúnculo
Nicholas Cooper
Kek, we use them all the time
Good post
Bad post
Enano
Kevin Russell
Yes. For example
Pole -> Polak
Litte Pole -> Polaczek
Bitch -> suka
Little bitch -> suczka
A fucking leaf -> Jebany liść
A fucking (little) leaf -> Jebany listek
Etc.
Adrian Perry
Enano, canijo
Isaiah Russell
tell me about czech vs. polish
Sebastian Green
yeah this one is used
Robert Nelson
Yes, kotik
Korotyshka
Jack Brooks
Cherrypicking much?
Yes, we are not tall as a people but we are not all manlets either, I'm 180 cm and actually the shortest guy in my family (Sinaloa)
Jaxson Gutierrez
Karlan.
Jose Wood
dale hace el """"""mexico white post"""""""
Imbécil
Gavin Perez
You sound bitter, no, I'm not that guy.
Aaron Torres
Pigmeo
Blake Edwards
Prcek
Henry Garcia
Gnome
Michael Stewart
anão (de jardim)
pigmeu
tampinha
baixinho
meio metro
Anthony Rodriguez
never realised we use diminutives that much, really made me think
William Rivera
In Argentina we use petiso
According to la Real Academia, it comes from Petito (portuguese) and is also used in all of Spanish South America from Peru to the South.
Camden Fisher
so
ronaldinho = lil ronaldo?
Easton Murphy
-je or tje
It's abused constantly.
Hunter Brown
Can be that, or just an affectionate way of calling someone
Jason Jones
el chapo
Hunter Thomas
Tapón
Hudson Rivera
Catalan:
"Homenet", "Homenetxo" (more despective).
Apparently, in Ibiza, they also say "baldufa". (Literally "Top", the toy).
Samuel Martin
I just discovered that Ronaldinho isnt a real name lol
>Homenetxo
esto se lee muy vasco, tambien se usa la "tx" en catalan?
David Evans
-inho=-ito (?) in Spanish
Nathan Reyes
yes, we also use -ín
John Turner
Sí, se usa. normalmente representa el sonido: tʃ
Es un sonido muy frecuente y presente en muchas lenguas, de todos modos.
No creo que tenga nada "vasco" más alla de la forma escrita, que es arbitraria y en Catalan se puede presentar de otros modos. (ig) a final de palabra, por ejemplo.
También puede aparecer por la modificación (irregular) de algunos fonemas en según que dialectos.
Carson Roberts
ito, ico, in, ino, iño, a lot of them are used
Jayden Peterson
pues eso, yo lo decia por la forma escrita, nunca he conocido otro idioma que use la "tx" de esa forma
William Anderson
A better question, is there a language which doesn't have a diminutive form of some sort?
English, besides having those morphological forms that mentioned, has dialectical expressions. Think Sottish/Irish English's "wee". "Wee lad", "wee cuppa", "wee buns".
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Brody Myers
Yes, but they're not as common as in other languages.
There isn't really a proper standard for turning things into diminutives, but it's usually adding something like -let, -ling, -ette, -ock, mini-, -y (or -ie) to the end of a word.
Alexander Torres
Sí, es poco común. Es cierto.
El problema de mi lengua es que, a diferencia del Castellano, tiene una escritura un poco irregular, que suele reflejar la etimologia (o intenta abarcar todas las variedades regionales), en vez de la fonetica de la palabra.
Es lo malo que tienen las formas "estándar", supongo.
Por ejemplo, "Barcelona" en la variedad oriental (Alrededores de Barcelona, Gerona..) (Que es el mio) se pronuncia:
/bəɾsə'lonə/
Ni una sola "a", ni una sola "e". Solo "ə", que es una vocal distinta (schwa).
Mason Rodriguez
We borrow ours from other languages
Duderino
Dudette
Dudeling
Dudiekins
Jaxson Rivera
Yes but they sound gay
Ryder Cook
>Do you have diminutive words in your language
Yesushki
Bentley Bailey
Reflejando mejor la fonetica de la zona, se puede poner tambien la L velarizada, quedando:
/bəɾsə'ɫonə/
Mason Gonzalez
Mannetje
Levi Richardson
enano, petiso, chiquito, bajito, gnomo, pigmeo, chichon de piso, liliputiense. There are a lot ways to say manlet in spanish