The diminutive degree of some nouns

the nounis a grammatical class that presents inflections of number (singular and plural), gender (male and female) and degree (augmentative and diminutive).

Given the particularities that the language offers, some of them become a little complex, culminating in several questions when putting them into practice in front of the act of writing.
Among the competences assigned to us as interlocutors is the improvement of our linguistic knowledge in relation to the standard language standard. And for this, there is a list below on the correct way to attribute the diminutive to certain nouns. Let's see:

By Vânia Duarte
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Grammar - Brazil School

Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:

DUARTE, Vânia Maria do Nascimento. "The diminutive degree of some nouns"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/o-grau-diminutivo-alguns-substantivos.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.

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