In Spanish, do people repeat words to add emphasis?
In English, we sometimes repeat words to add emphasis to something.
For example:
It was very, very cold out today.
I would never, ever, ever do something so crazy.
Do people do this in Spanish?
6 Answers
Hoy hace demasiado frío afuera.
Yo jamás (o nunca jamás, o jamás de los jamases) voy a hacer algo tan loco.
Pero sí, es muy, muy posible.
Sure! Like Estaba tan pero tan furioso, que su cara se puso roja 
He/she was so but so angry, that her face turned red.
Sometimes Spanish speakers will repeat an adverb with the word "pero" between. I've heard something like this:
Él está muy, pero muy enojado.
I don't know if this is only a regional use, but I've definitely heard it in Bogotá.
In Spanish, do people repeat words to add emphasis?
Muchas, muchas pero que muchas veces.
Yes, people do the same thing in Spanish even if it is not always grammatically correct. It is also common to add emphasis at the end of the word instead of repeating the same word. For example:
¡Muchisimas gracias! (Thank you very, very much!)
¿Te gusto la película? (Did you like the movie?) ¡Me encantó demasiadisimo! (I really, really liked it!)
Hope this helps!
Yes, is like iwana says.
She is really, really crazy : ¡Está loquísima!
It's so tiny : ¡Es pequeñísimo1
You should check out a list of "superlativos".
Maybe watching movies in spanish will help you to listen things like this! In informal dialogues you will hear stuff that do not appear in the text books.
