Spanish C2: Small & big: -ito, -illo, -ón, -azo · Grammar

Suffixes add size and feeling. -ito is small or affectionate (casita, ahorita); -illo is small or slightly dismissive (cosilla, chiquillo); -ín is regional (pequeñín). -ón makes things big (un cucharón, and a feminine noun may turn masculine: la mujer → el mujerón); -azo is big or a blow: un golpazo, un portazo (a door slam), un frenazo (sudden braking). Some are words of their own: la bombilla, el sillón, el bolsillo.