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.
Writing With Abandon 