Nouns are used to refer to people, animals, things or ideas.
In Spanish, there is a special variation: augmentative nouns and diminutive nouns.
The augmentative nouns express an idea of an increase. Examples:
Noun: hombre (man)
Augmentative: hombrón, hombrazo, hombrote ("big man").
Noun: mujer (woman)
Augmentative: mujerona, mujerota ("big woman").
The diminutive nouns express an idea of a decrease. Examples:
Noun: hombre (man)
Diminutive: hombrecito ("little man").
Noun: mujer (woman)
Diminutive: mujercita ("little woman").
The grammatical categories (variations of the word class) of the noun are the Gender and Number.
About gender, in Spanish, some nouns are masculine and others are feminine. There is no a given rule to determine the gender of a given noun, but there are some ways that will be covered later.
The number can be singular and plural.
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