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Originally Posted by Bob6831
Thanks, Tania, but help me understand the dimunitives better.
So, for your examples, you are saying 'small meal', 'small grand-mother/grand-father', 'small house', but they don't really mean small, like in a small-bodied grand-father or a little house?
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Well, a diminutive is either endearing or used for smaller things.
casa=casita
Can mean:
Tengo una csita en el campo. (I have a small house in the countryside)
Me voy a mi casita para descansar (I am going
home to rest)
With persons usually endearing:
Papá=papito
Mamá= mamita
Abuela= abuelita
But it may mean smaller, younger
Mi hermanita solo tiene 3 meses.
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Also, are they used only on 'o' or 'a' ending words, and can they be used on any of these words?
Thx.
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Yes, with any word.
Feminine words end in a, masculine in o.
la casa, la casita
el abrigo, el abriguito
el paquete, el paquetito