#gaticos

[madalos24]

In Costa Rica we use the term "tico/tica" to change words to diminutives, in this case: "los gaticos" or "el gatico"

Shout out to Spanish for having the correct word for kitties. This is literally el gato there's no other word for it

[fewkesgirl]

Quiero un hamster pero me da miedo que mi Michi se lo coma :(

[antowilly]

[words-for-cat-bracket]

round 3 - week 7 - 3 of 4

brought to you by: marceline the vampire queen

gatico (colombian spanish) vs kisumisu (finnish)

info and propawganda under the cut!

gatico /ɡaˈtiko/

Ok, so the usual word for kitty in Spanish is Gatito, but in Colombia when the word has t in its last syllable, we form the diminutive with c so that it's easier to pronounce, making gatico a very unique way to say kitty and that's why I think it should win.

kisumisu - no IPA provided

Long and cute !

both parts already mean "cat" on their own, the repetition is added for maximum kittycat cuteness. also insanely fun to say

[crastlefolke]

trick or treat

hiiii sam!! u get my grandmothers cat:

[alolaconato]

[viejospellejos]

Pobre gatico

[chileno-con-insomnio]

gatico

[quewea]

Dibujito rapido del patron y nosotros :D (los diseños de dinosaurio son inspirados de los diseños de k4rim-p1nt se encuentra con ese nombre de usuario tambien en tumblr, denle amor porfavor se lo recontra merece [te adoro a ti y a tu arte dio mio 💜 esque COMO HACES TANTAS OBRAS DE ARTE?! 💜💐🗣️] y se preguntan porque hay un.. Que quise hacer? Bueno trate de hacer un Xoloitzcuintles pero me acordé que son calvitos y que no se dibujar perros calvos- y un gatico esto debido a que son relacionado con la muerte y la magia)

[konoko]

Hola cual es tu users en Telegram? Y alguno de esos gaticos que has subido es tuyo?

mi tele es personal. mi rata gris odia que le tome fotos

[caminodelermitano]

Hola brujes y magues,

Estos días han sido muy diferentes a lo esperado. Una mudanza, aunque sea a una cuadra, es un trabajo que toma mucha energía y fuerza. Sin embargo, hay contenido y vlog. Este martes habrá un vlog donde hablaremos de altares y sguiremos mi vida en el monte jeje.

Me siento muy feliz y agradecido de poder ocupar este nuevo lugar en el campo, donde mis gaticos pueden tener más espacio y podemos estar mucho más cómodos. Esperen más contenido esta semana. Intentaré que los martes sean días de vlogs y jueves/viernes días de contenido diferente.

[sol-draws-sometimes]

Fun little Spanish Quirk!

Idk if there's any official rule of this but this is a rule I realized existed a couple of years ago and I want to share it with ya'll!

Okay so you may or may not know that in Spanish, to minimize a word, you add "ito/a" at the end of a word.

For example:

Perro= Perrito

Carro= Carrito

Rápido= Rapidito

Silla= Sillita

Casa= Casita

Sometimes you add "cito" so that it sounds nicer:

Cafe= cafecito

However, some people will add "ico" instead of ito, and I realized it follows this rule:

If the constant of the last syllable contains a 't', then you can use "ico/a"

For example:

Pato=Patico

Gato=Gatico

Caliente=Calientico

The only mainstream(at least to Cubans) example I can think of is Jose Martin's poem, Los Zapaticos de Rosa. (which if you haven't read please do! This website has it in English and Spanish. Just be aware the title is better translated as "the little pink shoes")

Some examples of when it DOESN'T work:

Casa≠Casica

Silla≠Sillica

Carro≠carrico

(At least to my ears these sound wrong)

However, apparently people say "perrico," which sounds weird to me, but I saw some backing for it. So idk if it's a hard and fast rule. With that said, I'm pretty sure the "t rule" applies pretty well to most words!

Also, I googled while writing this and forgot there are other diminutives people use, so you can have it properly explained in this article! (also just explains the diminutive rule more eloquently)

So yah, if you Speak/teach Spanish tell me if this checks out or not! And if you're learning Spanish, dw about using it, just stick to the OG rule if it confuses you. This isn't something someone sat down and taught me. It's something I do instinctively and reversed engineered a rule for it afterwards.

Sources! (I ended up googling to get example words/word things better) ⬇️

Quora thread, I used Damain C.Dol's cafecito example and they reminded me of "cito"

Used some of the examples in this article

Quora mentioned perrico(Katja Kaila)

Other Quora perrico mention(Juan Carlos Martin)

[words-for-cat-bracket]

round 2 - day 7 - 5 of 8

brought to you by: mimine

gatico (colombian spanish) vs katė (lithuanian)

info and propawganda under the cut!

gatico /ɡaˈtiko/

Ok, so the usual word for kitty in Spanish is Gatito, but in Colombia when the word has t in its last syllable, we form the diminutive with c so that it's easier to pronounce, making gatico a very unique way to say kitty and that's why I think it should win.

katė /kɐˈtʲeː/

it has a letter no one knows how to pronounce >:)

[nyotaslove]

I want it to be thursday so bad i want to watch dungeon meshi 😭😭😭😭 im so nervous whats going to happen with that little purple boy i think he has beef with laios so he's gonna do something?? Bc they didnt rub off the incantation circle. Maybe being back his own king bc i think hes the gatico from the painting episode. But im genuinely so nervous like Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Everythings too peaceful i know theres gotta be a new source of tension and its HIM! And his beef...

[rhysnolastname]

en la bata de casa buscando mi gatico en la calle... donde esta mi gato

[neighbourhoodtwo]

gatico