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Rules for Accents Word Stress
Spanish III Señora Hoffman-Fields
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1. Words that end with a vowel, the letter N, or the letter S are stressed on the next-to-last syllable.
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2. Words that end with a consonant (not N or S) are stressed on the last syllable.
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3. Any word that does not follow the first 2 rules has an accent mark on the stressed syllable. á é í ó ú
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¡Practicar! estudiante es-tu-di-an-te papel pa-pel gatos ga-tos azul
animal a-ni-mal caminamos ca-mi-na-mos borrador bo-rra-dor matador ma-ta-dor hablamos ha-bla-mos trabajan tra-ba-jan lentamente len-ta-men-te clase cla-se
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Combinations of Vowels
STRONG VOWELS A E O weak vowels I U the weakest vowel of all is I
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Combinations of Vowels
+ = Two strong vowels each count as a separate syllable. STRONG VOWEL STRONG VOWEL A strong and a weak vowel will blend together and count as one syllable. The strong vowel gets the stress. + = STRONG VOWEL weak vowel Two weak vowels will blend together and count as one syllable. The second weak vowel gets the stress. + = weak vowel weak vowel
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¡Practicar! I U A E O suegra sue-gra tarea ta-re-a impermeable
ciudad ciu-dad nueve nue-ve empleado em-ple-a-do video vi-de-o siete sie-te cuidado cui-da-do feo fe-o maestro ma-es-tro seis seis
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All interrogative words have an accent mark.
¿Qué? ¿Cómo? ¿Dónde?
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Accent marks can also determine the meaning of a word.
te – té si - sí tu – tú el - él
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Accents are only written on a vowel! á é í ó ú
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