Message 18524 of 39188 in General Discussion

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I am by no means an expert in Portuguese, but I visited my grandmother's 
childhood home near Rio a couple years ago and learned a tiny bit. (Also had 
the opportunity to have a couple Caipirinhas.)  As far as I can tell, the 
"inha" is pronounced "een-yuh", and is a suffix added to things to imply 
littleness/cuteness. For example, a girl named Anna I talked to went by 
Anninha to her friends (On-een-yuh).

It doesn't have a tilde over the n, but the nh sort of sounds like the ñ in 
Spanish. I got some cachaça, the same brand (51) that they used to make the 
ones I'd had in Brasil, but the Caipirinhas I've made haven't come out right 
at all - the cachaça has this REALLY strong smoky aftertaste which I don't 
remember it having in Brasil.

-If