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Me parece que he oído bastante la expresión "es muy cansadizo"; sé que en el español "correcto" se dice "es muy cansado" (it's very tiresome). No encuentro ninguna entrada "cansadizo" en ningún diccionario, pero en una búsqueda de google, veo muchos hits.

¿"Cansadizo" es una palabra que se oye pero que se considera completamente incorrecta?

Gracias.

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updated Nov 11, 2010
posted by mountaingirl123

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-izo and -azo are just suffixes that mean something like, "really" or "a lot" or "huge". They can be added to nouns or adjectives. Quite often the word winds up not being "real", but it's fairly common.

gol = goal, golazo = really big, important goal

It can also mean getting hit with something:

puño = fist, puñazo = punch
almohado = pillow, almohadazo = pillow fight
palo = stick, paliza = beating (originally with a stick)

updated Nov 11, 2010
edited by KevinB
posted by KevinB
Gracias, Kevin! Ahora me parece completamente obvio! - mountaingirl123, Oct 13, 2010
It's "puñetazo" not "puñazo" (that's not a real Spanish word) ;). AlmohadA. - InésDelRío, Nov 11, 2010
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En España , jamás he oido "cansadizo". Yo usaría "cansino". Tras andar 20 kilometros se acercó a nosotros con caminar cansino. El cavar es muy cansado Estoy cansado de viajar en tren(=estoy harto=no me gusta)

updated Nov 10, 2010
posted by lukaaxx
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Cansadizo is used for something that, by virtue of being repetitive, produces tiredness, or a feeling of being "fed up" with it.

I was rather surprised to find that the word does not exist in the dictionaries. It is rather common in Latin America.

updated Nov 10, 2010
posted by Gekkosan