theres alot of zins from brazil, are they all one big family?
this suffix attaches to words with stress on the last syllable, while those ending in unstressed -o, -a or -e use -inho (or -inha for feminine words). Increasingly, however, this rule is being broken, and pairs like alicatinho and alicatezinho (based on alicate (“pliers”)), gritinho and gritozinho (based on grito (“scream”)), and hortinha and hortazinha (based on horta (“vegetable garden”)) are found.