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English: downtoner

Portuguese translation: suavizador







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English term or phrase:downtoner
Portuguese translation:suavizador
Entered by:Vera Rocha
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English term or phrase: downtoner
Degree adverbs which scale down the effect of the modified item are sometimes called diminishers (or DOWNTONERS).
Vera Rocha
Portugal
suavizadores
Explanation:
Degree adverbs which scale down the effect of the modified item are sometimes called diminishers (or DOWNTONERS).

Advérbios de grau que escalonizam (para baixo) o efeito do ítem modificado são algumas vezes chamados de "advérbios diminuidores" (ou suavizadores).

Corresponderia, em português, aos advérbios de INTENSIDADE, que, contudo, não sofrem diferenciação quanto a ordem crescente ou decrescente (como no inglês, em que podem ser 'suavizadores' ou 'enfatizadores´ - intensifier adjectives can be: emphasizer, amplifier, downtoner)

PDF]Hilde Hasselgård and Signe Oksefjell (eds). Out of Corpora: ...
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... term diachronic study of rather, which developed from an adverb of manner indicating
speed (eg 'at once') into a comparative adverb and finally into a downtoner ...
www.hit.uib.no/icame/ij24/reviews3.pdf - Páginas Semelhantes
English Language Institute - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... downtoners. However, “quite can be considered both an intensifier
and a downtoner depending on British/American English usage. ...
www.eli.ubc.ca/students/speaking/ conversation/dialogue/really.htm - 17k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

Adverbials - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... viewpoint focusing (additive, limiter) intensifier (emphasizer, amplifier, downtoner)
process (manner, means, instrument) subject (general, volitional ...
duermueller.tripod.com/adverbials.html - 13k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

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Maria Lopes
Brazil
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Obrigada, Maria, por mais esta ajuda preciosa!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3suavizadores
Maria Lopes
1diminuitivos
Ricardo Fonseca


  

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diminuitivos

Explanation:
diminishers=diminuitivos
não sei se poderá tratar do mesmo

Ricardo Fonseca
Portugal
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
suavizadores

Explanation:
Degree adverbs which scale down the effect of the modified item are sometimes called diminishers (or DOWNTONERS).

Advérbios de grau que escalonizam (para baixo) o efeito do ítem modificado são algumas vezes chamados de "advérbios diminuidores" (ou suavizadores).

Corresponderia, em português, aos advérbios de INTENSIDADE, que, contudo, não sofrem diferenciação quanto a ordem crescente ou decrescente (como no inglês, em que podem ser 'suavizadores' ou 'enfatizadores´ - intensifier adjectives can be: emphasizer, amplifier, downtoner)

PDF]Hilde Hasselgård and Signe Oksefjell (eds). Out of Corpora: ...
Formato do arquivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Ver em HTML
... term diachronic study of rather, which developed from an adverb of manner indicating
speed (eg 'at once') into a comparative adverb and finally into a downtoner ...
www.hit.uib.no/icame/ij24/reviews3.pdf - Páginas Semelhantes
English Language Institute - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... downtoners. However, “quite can be considered both an intensifier
and a downtoner depending on British/American English usage. ...
www.eli.ubc.ca/students/speaking/ conversation/dialogue/really.htm - 17k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

Adverbials - [ Traduzir esta página ]
... viewpoint focusing (additive, limiter) intensifier (emphasizer, amplifier, downtoner)
process (manner, means, instrument) subject (general, volitional ...
duermueller.tripod.com/adverbials.html - 13k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes




    Reference: http://www.eli.ubc.ca/students/speaking/conversation/dialogu...
    Reference: http://www.revisalingua.com.br/boletins/boletim21.htm
Maria Lopes
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
Obrigada, Maria, por mais esta ajuda preciosa!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Yedo Figueiredo
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agree Tereza Amaral-Rogers
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