Writing With Abandon

Reflections and ramblings about life as an educator, writer, reader, knitter, and over-thinker. Trying to do the writing only I can do.

Tag: bilingual

  • Cansadete

    When I lived in Spain and started to really become fluent in Spanish, I loved learning the augmentative forms of words. I knew about the diminutives (perrito, cajita). But the augmentative — intensifying, indicating greatness in size, exaggerating — was new to me.

    Ojos súper bonitos became ojazos.

    Muy cansada was cansadete.

    Today I feel eso — un cansancio tan grande que me siento cansadete. Agotada.

    It was an events-filled week, where there’s a lot of fun, but the routine gets thrown off.

    Entonces, esta noche, solo pienso en mi cama, y lo rico que será dormir esta noche sin alarma.