What does “todinho” mean in Brazilian Portuguese?

Criança faz bagunça, limpa tudo e vira exemplo

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A2 Portuguese listening practice · Northeastern Brazilian Portuguese · Picked for people who know a little

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todinho
Brazilian intensifier
“every last bit of it” — a diminutive that makes the word bigger, not smaller

Portuguese diminutives usually shrink or sweeten a word. Todinho does the opposite: todo means “all,” and the -inho ending pushes it to “all of it, every last bit.” Limpe todinho is “clean it up completely.” Here the suffix is an intensifier rather than a shrinker — the same move behind igualzinho (“exactly the same”), agorinha (“right this minute”) and pertinho (“really close”).

It agrees like any adjective — todinha, todinhos, todinhas — and lives naturally with commands and finished results: comeu todinho, molhou a blusa todinha. One Brazilian trap: Toddynho, spelled with a y, is a famous carton of chocolate milk, and children cheerfully use both in the same sentence. In the clip the praise runs isso mesmo, limpe todinho over a toddler wiping the floor.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this A2 Portuguese listening practice video?

94.6%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Most of the words in this video are common Portuguese words.

How common in written Portuguese

81.1%
Top 1,000
94.6%
Top 2,000
97.3%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken Portuguese

97%
Top 1,000
100%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in Portuguese.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than A2. Here is what they mean.

blusa
1×
Not in top 5,000
shirt
limpou
1×
Not in top 5,000
cleaned
rapazinho
1×
Not in top 5,000
little boy
sujou
1×
Not in top 5,000
made a mess

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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