can be used for example: ветер (the wind), ветрюга (strong wind). Serbo-Croatian In Serbo-Croatian there is a variety of augmentative nouns formed with suffixes: -ina, e.g. brdo, n. ("hill") + ina → brdina -čina, e.g. majmun, m. ("monkey") + čina → majmunčina -etina, e.g. kuća, f. ("house") + etina → kućetina -erina, e.g. kuća + erina → kućerina -urina, e.g. ptica, f. ("bird") + urina → ptičurina -ešina, e.g. glava, f. ("head") + ešina → glavešina -uština, e.g. bara, f. ("pond") + uština → baruština -ušina, e.g. pijetao, m. ("rooster") + ušina → pjetlušina Augmentative nouns are either pejoratives, although distinct pejorative suffixes also exist. All augmentative nouns have female grammatical gender. Some nouns can have their augmentatives formed with different suffixes, for example, see 'kuća' above. In Hrvatska gramatika, Barić et al. do not classify adjectives formed with suffixes which intensify an action or property as augmentatives. The augmentative prefixes for adjectives listed in Hrvatska gramatika are pre- ("excessively"; or excess of a favorable property), hiper- ("hyper-"), super- and ultra-. According to Hrvatska enciklopedija, augmentative verbs surpass their base verb with their intensity. However, by defining augmentative verbs as an action done excessively, Hrvatska gramatika only lists pre- ("over-") as an augmentative verb. Semitic languages Arabic Form II of the Arabic verb often has an augmentative sense, which may indicate intensity (intensive) or repetition (frequentative). Bantu languages Bantu languages' noun class markers often double as augmentative and diminutive markers, and some have separate classes that are used only as a augmentative or a diminutive. Chichewa Chichewa noun class 7 prefix chi- doubles up as augmentative marker. For example, chi'''ndege which is a huge plane as opposed to ndege which is just a regular plane. International auxiliary languages Esperanto In Esperanto, the -- suffix is included before the final part-of-speech vowel. For example, domo (house) becomes domego (mansion). See Esperanto vocabulary. Interlingua Interlingua does not have an augmentative suffix, but international prefixes such as super-, hyper-, mega- can be used as augmentatives. See also Interlingua grammar. Notes See also Diminutive Affect (linguistics) Comparison (grammar) Linguistic morphology