Tildes and spanish accents

when to know how to use tildes

Spanish Accents and Tildes

• show where to place stress when a word breaks standard pronunciation rules

• stress is assigned based on ending letter, requiring and accent mark only when a word deviates from those naturla patterns or needs to be distinguished

Standard stress rules: Ends in a vowel (a,e,i,o.u) N, or S

• stress naturally falls on the second to last syllable no accent needed

• e,g casa, jove,, hablan

Standard stress rules: Ends in any consonant (except n or s)

• stress naturally falls on last syllable

• e,g coercer, habalr, madriz

When to add an accent (palabras agudas)

• stress on last syllable but ends in vowel, N, or S (palabras agudas)

• e,g cancion, sofa, ingles

when to add an accent (palabras llanas)

• stressed on second to last syllable, but and in any other consonant

• e,g arbol, lapiz, comic

stressed on the third-to-last syllable or earlier (edrujulas) always carry an accent mark

• musics, ejamplo