Comments on: El Acento in Spanish: To Mark or Not To Mark

By: Alex-Learns-Spanish

Alex-Learns-Spanish — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:39:03 +0000

Good question Celeste, and yes, nación includes the diphthong because the i is an unstressed vowel. Another example is: adiós. Día does not form a diphthong because the í is stressed. Hope this helped. -Alex

By: Celeste

Celeste — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:44:41 +0000

In regards to hiatus and dipthongs: if a weak and strong vowel form a dipthong, but the dipthong is broken by the strong vowel carrying an accent ex: nación (accent on the o); is this still a dipthong because the strong vowel carries the accent instead of the weak vowel like in the work día?

Thanks

By: Alex-Learns-Spanish

Alex-Learns-Spanish — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:43:30 +0000

Yes Mellisa, Soccer in Spanish is: fútbol, with an acento. See Rule 3, above. And no, you’re not slow; learning a new language takes practice and perseverance.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:00:42 +0000

Does futbol have an acento? And, I honestly have to say, some of the words in your article I did not understand. :/ maybe I’m just very slow.

By: Spanish-Teacher-Marlys

Spanish-Teacher-Marlys — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:59:21 +0000

As you can see in Rule 2. above, habló ‘he/she spoke’ (past tense) has an accent mark–the stress is on the last syllable.

Hablo on the other hand, does not. Hablo means ‘I speak’ (present tense).