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What's the “ísimo” in the following words?
What's the "ísimo" doing on the following adjectives?
What rules should be applied to convert the adjectives to the corresponding "ísimo" adjective?
Can this be applied to all adjectives or just a ...
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How would you build the spanish counterpart of “truthiness”?
I stumbled upon the English term Truthiness
"truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" in that it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or ...
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What's the meaning of the -azo suffix?
What's the meaning of the (noun)-azo?
How the nouns are transformed into their -azo noun?
In which cases should be used?
Examples:
zapatazo
golpazo
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What is the origin of word endings like -ducir, -vocar, -locar, -ludir, -mitir?
The word-endings -ducir, -locar, -vocar, -ludir, -mitir are quite common, each can take a lot of common prefixes to form real words, for example:
conducir, producir, introducir, aducir, inducir, ...
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What suffixes are used to indicate jobs?
What suffixes are used to indicate jobs? Please provide examples.
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Suffixes used to transform an adjective into a noun [closed]
Spanish has, to my knowledge, more possible suffixes than for example English or German. Many adjectives can be transformed into nouns by adding -ness, -ism, -ity in English, or -keit, -heit, -ismus ...
