{"id":233,"date":"2010-01-14T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=233"},"modified":"2010-01-14T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T19:06:20","slug":"diminutives-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/diminutives-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Diminutives in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish uses a lot of diminutives and the Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola has some rules to form them; check them out.<\/p>\n<p>1. One-syllable words<\/p>\n<p>a) ending in a vowel: <em>pie <\/em>(foot) &#8211; -ececito, -ececillo, -ececico, -ecezuelo: <em>piececito<\/em>.<br \/>\nb) ending in a consonant or y: <em>rey <\/em>(king) &#8211; -ecito, -ecillo, -ecico, -ezuelo, -achuelo, -ichuelo: <em>reyecito<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Two-syllable words<\/p>\n<p>a) ending in e, ia, ua, io, ei, ie, ue (in the first syllable): <em>calle <\/em>(street), <em>reina <\/em>(queen) &#8211; -ecito, -ecillo, -ecico, -ezuelo, -achuelo, -ichuelo: <em>callecita, reinecita<\/em><\/p>\n<p>b) ending in n and r: <em>joven <\/em>(youngster), <em>amor <\/em>(love) &#8211; -cito, -cillo, -cico, -zuelo : <em>jovencito, amorcito<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. Three or more syllables<\/p>\n<p>a) ending in n or r: <em>imagen <\/em>(image), <em>comedor <\/em>(dining room) &#8211; -cito, -cillo, -cico, -zuelo : <em>imagencita, comedorcito<\/em><\/p>\n<p>b) any other ending: <em>animal <\/em>&#8211; -ito, -illo, -ico, -uelo: <em>animalito<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are general rules, but there are plenty of exceptions, so listen carefully for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish uses a lot of diminutives and the Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola has some rules to form them; check them out. 1. One-syllable words a) ending in a vowel: pie (foot) &#8211; -ececito, -ececillo, -ececico, -ecezuelo: piececito. b) ending in a consonant or y: rey (king) &#8211; -ecito, -ecillo, -ecico, -ezuelo, -achuelo, -ichuelo: reyecito. 2. Two-syllable&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/diminutives-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-suffix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}