Do you want to spell and write properly in Spanisch? What are the rules for the placement of the accent mark in Spanish? Then this lesson is for you. This is Spanish lesson for beginners or intermediate level students with many sentences as example (translated in English) with questions and indications that could come in handy on everyday life when writing and speaking spanish. Learn Spanish on YouTube.
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HOLA HOLA, soy Tommy!
Your favorite Spanish teacher!
And today--
Is this sentence correct?
And ... today we’ll learn ...
Nina está en la cocina.
Sí ...
Yaaaay!
... but you pronounced that wrong.
Of course I did something wrong... what was it?
You said ESTA instead of ESTÁ.
I just heard the same thing.
ESTA (this) and ESTÁ (she is, from the verb ESTAR) with an accent mark on the A.
Ooooh with this apostrophe thingy...
Today we’ll learn how to properly place the accent mark on the vowels in Spanish.
El acento, which is also called LA TILDE ... but... you know what it is NOT called?
No ...
Apóstrofo! This is not an apostrophe.
An apostrophe is something else that we barely use in Spanish.
Well ... I want to spell and write properly in Spanish. What are the rules for the placement of the accent mark in Spanish?
El acento is used to emphasize syllables in Spanish.
According to which syllable is stressed, we classify the words (las palabras) in Spanish:
Aguda, with the emphasis on the last syllable. Like MAMÁ.
Llana, with the emphasis on the penultimate syllable. Like ÁRBOL.
Esdrújula, with the emphasis on the third from last syllable. Like NÚMERO.
And how do I know when and where to put an accent mark?
Palabras agudas. I put an accent mark at the end when the word ends with either N, S or a vowel:
Mamá. mamá
Vowel at the end.
Información. información
N at the end.
Estás. estás
S at the end.
Trabajar, comprar, universidad
All of these words have emphasis at the end when pronounced, but do not need an accent mark, because the ending has neither N, S nor a vowel.
Now, las palabras LLANAS, the ones with the emphasis on the penultimate syllable...
I put an accent mark on the penultimate syllable only when such a word ends with a consonant, except N or S ...
Arbol. Arbol
Azúcar. Azúcar
Leche. Leche
Martes. Martes
All these words are emphasized when pronounced on the penultimate syllable, but only the words that have neither a vowel, nor N, nor S at the end are written with an accent mark on this penultimate syllable.
Like ÁRBOL and AZÚCAR ... now las palabras esdrújulas, with emphasis on the third from last syllable ...
In Spanish we try to write everything as we pronounce it.
That's why EL ACENTO is so important for the pronunciation.
If you hear that a Spanish word is pronounced with the third from last syllable stressed, that word is always
SIEMPRE?
ALWAYS ... written with an accent mark on this syllable.
Número. número
Emphasis in NÚ
Periódico. Periódico.
Emphasis in peri-Ó-dico
Clásico. Clásico.
Emphasis in CLÁ-sico
These are the main rules for written accent marks in Spanish...
But there are other cases, right?
Yes, for example
The accent is also used to mark the break of a diptongo.
WHAT?!
A diptongo in this case is the combination of a strong vowel (a, e, o) and a weak vowel (i, u) that is pronounced like one syllable ...
Pausa. Pause. Here is PAU- a diptongo, a syllable.
In some words, we should pronounce such a combination as two syllables, and to do that correctly, we need an acento on the I or U, as in the name Raúl.
Raúl. here A and U will pronounce like two syllables.
PAUSA. One syllable without acento.
RAÚL. two syllables with acento on the Ú.
Exactly ... that's why many words that end with -ÍA have an Acento on the Í.
Biología, filosofía, panadería, María ...
Lastly, we use the accent mark with monosyllabic words to distinguish different meanings. Especially between pronouns, verbs and prepositions...
Oooh like ..
TU (posesivo, your ...)
TÚ (personal pronoun, you)
DE (preposition)
DÉ (conjugación del verbo DAR, give, conjugated in presente subjuntivo)
WHAT?
SE (pronombre, yourself or one)
SÉ (I know in Spanish)
Sé que ejemplo se puede decir ahora.
¿Qué ejemplo?
Esta lección está terminada.
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