Editing Augmentative (section)

=== Portuguese ===
In [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], the most common augmentatives are the masculine ''-ão'' (sometimes also ''-zão'' or ''-zarrão'') and the feminine ''-ona'' (or ''-zona''), although there are others, less frequently used. E.g. ''carro'' "car", ''carrão'' "big car"; ''homem'' "man", ''homenzarrão'' "big man"; ''mulher'' "woman", ''mulherona'' "big woman".

Sometimes, especially in [[Brazilian Portuguese]], the masculine augmentative can be applied to a feminine noun, which then becomes grammatically masculine, but with a feminine meaning (e.g. ''"o mulherão"'' instead of ''"a mulherona"'' for "the big woman"); however, such cases usually imply subtle meaning twists, mostly with a somewhat gross or vulgar undertone (which, nonetheless, is often intentional, for the sake of wit, malice or otherwise; so, ''mulherão'' actually means not a big woman, but a particularly sexy one).