Hoy aprendi algo Nuevo In Spanish, suffixes called augmentatives can be added to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and names to indicate bigness, as well as other ideas such as excessiveness, contempt, or disdain. In this way, you can say that something is big without adding an adjective like grande to indicate bigness or repugnante to indicate contempt. Augmentatives change to match the gender and number of the word they modify. Common Spanish augmentatives: masculine -ón -azo -ote -acho feminine -ona -aza -ota -acha por ejemplo hombre - man hombrón - big, strapping man libro - book librote -big, heavy book Is this practically put into use in your day to day conversation ? Can you please give me example sentences or words that you use or can think of ? ( most commonly used ) Link : http://www.elearnspanishlanguage.com/grammar/augmentatives.html