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262 CONYERSATIONAL PORTUGUESE

sabdo	soap
sabonete	a cake of toilet soap
velho	oldman
velhinho	little old man
avó	grandfather
avózinho	(dear) grandfather
avó	grandmother
avózinha	(dear) grandmother
cedo	soon
cedinho	quite soon

2. Certain endings, such as do, arrdo, and aęo, indi-cate large size, but tbey can also be uncompli-mentary, indicating clumsiness, etc.:

gato	cat	gatao, gatarrdo	big cat
homem	man	homenzarr&o	very large man
casa	house	casardo	large house, mansion
drama	drama, play	dramalhdo	melodrama
mulher	woman	mulheraęa	big woman
muiher	woman	muiherona	big woman

3. NOTĘ: Although one should notice the differ-ence in meaning given by these endings, he should be careful in using them and be surę he knows the form and meaning before employing words with these endings.

25. DEMONSTRATIVES

1. Demonstrative adjectives:

MASCULINE^1	FEMININE
este	esta	this
esse	essa	that
aąuele	aąuela	that (farther removed)
estes	estas	these
esses	essas	those
aąueles	aąuelas	those (farther

removed)

a.    Portuguese demonstrative adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify and agree with them in gender and number:

estemenino    thisboy

aąueles vizinhos    those neighbors

b.    £sse and aąuele both mean “that.” źsse refers to something near to or related to the person spoken to; aąuele refers to something morę remote:

Nao gosto desse livro. I don’t like that book_s

(near you or mentioned by you).

£ aąuele senhor ąue    He's that gentleman who

chegou ontem.    arrived yesterday.

2. Demonstrative pronouns:

a. The same forms are also used as demonstra-tive pronouns:

1

These masculine forms and their contracted forms do not have an accent mark in Portugal: este, deste, etc.