Learn something very Spanish: Los diminutivos en español

Say it the Spanish way. Say oscurito instead of oscuro; mesita instead of mesa; sillita instead of silla; carrito instead of carro; casita instead of casa; pececito instead of pez; rinconcito instead of rincón, etc. Make it small, make it cute, make it sweet, nice, and show how fond you are of the object or thing you are talking about. In Spanish, making something small, does not necessarily mean that something is actually small. Diminutivos in Spanish are also used to make somet