What words are like **hella** or **kinda** ?
HELLA
Hell-of-a or very much ___
KINDA
Kinda like ⬇️
SORTA
Sorta like Kinda
WANNA
Want to
GONNA
Going to
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Hell-of-a or very much ___
KINDA
Kinda like ⬇️
SORTA
Sorta like Kinda
WANNA
Want to
GONNA
Going to
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This category of words is called qualifiers, and they indicate "to what degree" for adjectives and adverbs.
Other qualifiers include words like "rather", "quite", and "very".
TIL I've prolly been misusing
qualifierthey're adverbs!
specifically, kinda and sorta are contractions of the qualifying adverb phrases kind of and sort of whereas hella serves as an alternate form of the intensifying adverb phrase "...as hell", eg:
kind of sketchy
sort of sketchy
sketchy as hell
These are "degree adverbs" and change the intensity of the following word or words.
Edit: misread the question.