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Possibilities in German to minimize a term?
I stumbled upon the English term Truthiness
"truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" in that it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or ...
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Are there any rules how to build the diminutive?
We build a diminutive by adding the suffix -lein or -chen. For some nouns one is preferred over the other whereas with other nouns both may be used.
Examples:
der Tisch | das Tischlein | das ...
