Coffee Break Spanish - How to expand your vocabulary - 3 useful Spanish suffixes | The Coffee Break Spanish Show 1.10

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

It's time for the 10th and final episode for this series of the Coffee Break Spanish Show! Join Anabel and Concha as they look at some tips and tricks to help you expand your vocabulary in an easy and straightforward way, so that you can gain more confidence in your Spanish. To do this, we take a look at three suffixes.➡️ Click to access the blog article and worksheet which accompany this episode ⬅️  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Welcome to the Coffee Break Spanish show. I'm Annabelle. And I am Concha. What about, Concha? Very well. How are you? I'm very well and very content.

In these weekly episodes, we bring you something interesting and help you to improve your Spanish, one coffee break at a time. That's so if you're watching us, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel. And if you're listening to us, also subscribe to our podcast feed on whatever platform you used to listen to us. Okay. Very well. I think in this episode we have something interesting. Exactly.

What? What we're going to be talking about suffixes. We're going to be talking about suffixes. Ah, perfect. I'm much going to do this. Yes. Well, I've prepared this episode kind of like with some games. Okay.

I'm going to challenge you and also the learners. Oh, yeah. And try to do these games. Okay. We are going to see some suffixes. The first one is going to be a Mende, that is to form adverbs, as you know. Uh-huh, exactly. So that would be the equivalent to Li in English, right?

Uh-huh. So easily, Facilmente, for example. Yeah? So if it ends in Li, then we have Mende in Spanish. They are easy to form because just like in English, we have easy and then easily. So we have an adjective. We take that adjective and then add form the feminine form of that adjective and then add Mente.

One example could be, for example, yeah, easily, Facil, Facilmente. Facil doesn't change in gender. But another example that you can think of. Okay, so for example, if I use the adjective Afortunado, then I form the feminine, Afortuna, and then I add the suffix, Afortunately.

Which means fortunately. Exactly. Okay, perfect. Easy, right? Very bien. Yes, so far. Yeah. Okay, so my challenge for you,

and also for you, is that you're going to have 10 seconds and try to write as many words in Spanish and English. Like, working this out if the advert and similarly in English, just trying to do it in Spanish, starting from that adjective. Okay, okay. Okay, everything clear. Yes, yes, so 10 seconds and the 10 seconds start now. Okay. And time? Oh, okay.

Okay. What time, Concha? Very, very bien. Okay, excellent. So let's see. Okay, perfect. The first is Ligeramente.

Okay, so I took the adjective Ligero from the feminine and then added the suffix Ligeramente and that means lightly. Perfect. Yes, very well. Good, perfect.

Okay, and I think Calidamente. I'm a which means warmly. So I took the adjective calido from the feminine and then added the suffix Calidamente.

Excellent. with the tilde? Yes, I didn't forget the accent. So it has an accent on the first A.

Calidamente. Excellent. Very very. And I'm one more. This is Simplemente.

So Simplemente means simply. And I formed this word by taking the adjective Simple, which means simple.

And it doesn't change in masculine and feminine. So it is the same, Simple. And then I

turned that into an advert by adding Mente. So Simple simply. Well, thank you.

Much thanks for those examples. And I hope you have like performed as

well as Concha. Now I have another challenge and that means that I have

another suffix to learn and this one is going to be that D,

A, D in Spanish which can come from E T, IT, Y in English. We'll see

this with an example. So in English we say positivity and in Spanish

we are going to have positive And another nice thing about this is that in Spanish, as you know, Concha, when a word ends in that is going to be feminine. Exactly. That's very easy. So we don't need to be like wondering if masculine or feminine is going to be feminine.

Okay. So now that we know this, positivity becomes positivity. Let's try this with another 10 seconds. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, time now.

And yeah. I'm sorry, Concha. Okay. No, no, perfect. I have some examples. Very well, well, what you have? Okay, so the first thing I'm a lot.

Yes, which would be festivity. That's so festivity, festivided. Very well. Another that I have caridad. Oh, and me can't. Yeah, caridad is charity.

Uh-huh, very well. And the spelling there also changes a little bit because we have charity and in Spanish is caridat, which means that it's always a CA, carididat. Exactly. Very well.

Tengo I'm a nativity Ah, fichate for me nativity I don't know

about you but it's more of like a name like a woman's name no? Yeah it means nativity

but it can also be used as a name like Concha nativity Ah, and some words so many

festivas so so I'm so now I have one last challenge and this one is

easy but I think it's fun We are going to be talking about itoita, itos itas, that is simply like it's just used to talk, like to say that something is small or cute. So if we want to say that it's a small house, then it's casa is house. So small house, casita. Casita also means like it can be that it's small, but also something else, Concha. Something that is like very homey, like Casita, very cute, like, yeah, my house.

So this happens with almost any noun if we want to say, you know, it's a small messa, small table, then it's messita. And it can also be cute. Okay. So easy? Yeah. I'm ready for a challenge. Okay. So we're going to have another 10 seconds.

And yeah, the time. Empeza. Yeah. We're going. Well, what you have? I've got. I've got. Many of those examples.

In this case, it's tacita. Oh, yes. Like a little mag? Exactly. It comes from the word taza. And there is a little bit of a change in spelling as well because of the pronunciation. That said is now a si. So tacita.

Very well. And do you have another one? Yes. I have another one. A bit. This is a arbolito. Oh, like a arbolito festivo, no? Exactly.

Like a arbolito Navideo. Like a Christmas tree, but a small Christmas tree. Arbolito. Yes, and Arbolito comes from Arbol, which is also masculine, and that's why here we have Arbolito. Yes. Well, muches thanks, Concha, for these examples, and thanks a you also.

Remember that these are only some examples of suffixes, but of course there are more, and probably we can cover them at a different time, a different episode. Yes, I think we have learned a lot for today. No, no, yes, so very well, so I hope you have enjoyed this lesson. Thank you very much. that if you want a written version of this episode and have a look at the examples and further notes, then you can go to our blog post. The link is in the description of this episode. Yes, so is. And if you'd like to get more help with your Spanish, you can get our regular

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