in fact, the Portuguese language the more you study, the more you realize that it is extremely complex and surprising. Recently, Professor Sérgio Nogueira spoke about the way some words are in the augmentative form. Many people were surprised that they did not believe that some of them could exist. Below are some examples of words in the augmentative.
Common words in the augmentative are reasons for controversy
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Not long ago, a video was published on the internet in which Professor Laércio Silva de Souza, 36, cited several examples of Portuguese words in their augmentative form and what many did not expect is that several of them surprised hundreds and people.
For example, a resident of Teresina, Piauí, said in the recording that the word “copázio” is the augmentative of cup, and “mocetona” is the girl.
After all, are there other ways to say those same words in the augmentative?
According to Professor Sérgio Nogueira, graduated in Letters at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), there are words that can be said in another way, also being in the augmentative form.
Nogueira says that, in some cases, the use of words ending in “ão”, such as, for example, copão and bocão are allowed in everyday language.
What about the examples cited by Laertius?
Sérgio adds saying that he thinks it's too much for you to use the words "copazio" or "bocarra" in everyday life. He explains that there is a big difference between the learned language and the colloquial language and that we should not mix the two.
He uses the clothes we have in our closet as an example. For him every outfit belongs to an occasion. A suit and tie are not options to go to Maracanã. Thus, the correct word is “adequacy”.
Check out some examples of other augmentations below:
- Cup: Cup;
- Mouth: Mouth;
- Fire: Bonfire;
- Man: Big Man;
- Girl: Mocetone;
- Boy: Boy;
- Money: Money;
- Body: Corpanzil.
