+40 EXAMPLES of words with GUE and GUI with umlauts

The Spanish language It contains many characteristics or peculiarities that make it unique. Among them we can highlight the use of certain linguistic graphic markers in writing to highlight a specific pronunciation. Yes, it is true that many languages ​​share these elements with Spanish, either the tilde or the virgulilla (the wavelets that turn an "n" into a "ñ"), but that does not make the Spanish language stop being so own.

And, in addition, it is not only due to the appearance of these markers, but to the rules of use that surround them. Among these aspects we can highlight the use of the umlaut (¨) in Spanish. That is why in a Professor we are going to delve into the words with gue and gui with umlauts and examples. Long live linguistics!

There are those who call her cream, but we will continue to call her umlaut. The umlaut, as defined by the Royal Spanish Academy is a spelling helper sign which is represented with two parallel points horizontally on a letter (in Spanish the most common, if not to say that we will see it that way exclusively, is to see it on the "u"). This is how we would find words with this symbol:

ü. It is not unique and exclusive to our language, although it does have a fairly widespread and concrete use.

Well, what is the umlaut used for in the Spanish language? Plain and simple for pronounce the "u" when not playing. It sounds weird, but we will develop it more extensively below. You will see how it is not so bad!

As we said, the umlaut is used in Spanish exclusively with the letter "u", and it is done, normally, to mark that that letter it must be pronounced. We already know that in our language the letters "g" and "q" are always accompanied by "u", which is silent, when they are followed by "e" or "i". That is to say, that "u" is not pronounced. However, it is pronounced when an "a" or an "o" comes behind. This is how “water” would be phonologically pronounced ˈa̠ɣ̞wa̠ (pronouncing the u), while in eagle that “u” is not pronounced.

Bearing in mind that the "q" never appears alone without the "u" in Spanish (there are still some exceptions), we will focus especially on the "g". The letter "g", explained above, in "Gue" and "gui" are silent. It is general knowledge, but in the same way we will remember that this is because when "g" followed by "e" or "i" without an intermediate "u" (that is, "ge" and "gi") is pronounced as a "j".

For example, we have "turn" or "guide", two very common words where in the first we have the pronunciation of the "G" similar to "j" and in the second we have the pronunciation that we would expect, a priori, of a "g", with the "u" change.

Yes Yes. Too much trouble all this to explain something so simple. But seriously now. When is the umlaut used in Spanish? The answer is very simple and, far from what many of us can remember, the umlaut in the Spanish language has two main uses, although one of them is quite difficult to find.

1. The umlaut as a pronunciation marker for the "u": As we said, the umlaut helps us to differentiate when a "u" in "gue" or "gui" should be pronounced and when not. When we see “gue” or “gui” it is silent, while when we see it with umlauts as “güe” or “güi”, both vowels are pronounced (that is, both the “u” and the “e” in “gue”). For example, words with "gue" and with "gui" could be: guide, hostel, bourgeoisie or guitar. However, words with "güe" or with "güi" would be: drain, linguistics, contiguity or bilingual. (We will see many more examples below). Something that we must take into account in this case is that it does not matter if it appears on lowercase or uppercase words, the umlaut must always appear yes or yes (that is, if we see drain in uppercase it would be DRAIN).
2. The umlaut as a metric sum marker in poems: This use of the umlaut is perhaps a little less well known than the previous one. In this case, the umlaut is used on the "u" that appears in a diphthong to highlight that both vowels belong to different syllables. Therefore, in the metric of the poem, the verse where this umlaut appears should be counted one more syllable. For example, in the CANTO II A Tersa by José de Espronceda, included in the unfinished Devil world (1841) we have: Oh! How sweet resounded in my ear / the bustle of the world and its noise!

This is how Espronceda himself marks the sum of syllables (one per verse) with the umlaut. Garcilaso de la Vega also uses this technique in his Eclogue II, used the umlaut, above all, in the word noise.

Therefore, and ending with this explanation, the umlaut is a spelling marker that it is not exclusive to the Spanish language, but that it does have its own rules in this language. We must bear in mind that the norm emphasizes that if the “g” is followed by “a” / “o”, the letter “u” should not be used as an intermediary (seaweed, I go out, rubber, win, ...) unless that "u" is one more vowel, which is pronounced (water, ancient, attest, ambiguous). Similarly, with "e" or with "i" there are three ways in which the "g" can appear:

• "Ge" / "gi": In these cases the "g" acts like a "j": fragile, gentle, manager, gym.
• "Gue" / "gui": Here the "g" is pronounced like a "g" and the "u" is silent: cheetah, guide, fig tree, someone.
• "Güe" / "güi": This case with umlauts is the one that concerns us at the moment and the one that interests us the most. The "g" is still pronounced like a "g" but the "u" is no longer silent and is pronounced: penguin, shame, canoeing, ointment.

Already in the field, it is time to provide examples of words with gue and gui with umlauts. Therefore, we will start with the words with "güe". These are the more common and we find many verbs in the past tense (such as I dwindled), subjunctive (decrease, decrease, decrease, decrease, decrease) and imperative (in this case it would also be ebb and wane), plus adjectives and nouns:

1. Omen: Don't go under the ladder, it's bad omen.
2. Ambiguity: He treated the subject of discussion fairly ambiguity.
3. Dampen: I hope this cushion dampen The hit.
4. Antiquity: They were not aware of the antiquity so valuable that they had before them.
5. Appease: There is nothing that appease to this beast.
6. Find out: We must have the party for him before he find out everything.
7. Bilingual: It does not matter if you know two or more languages, you are considered bilingual.
8. Stork: This steeple has a nest of storks over for years.
9. Crankshaft: Some part of the crankshaft, safe.
10. Drain: The plumber came to fix us drain Yesterday.
11. Bloodless: The animal was bloodless after walking.
12. Frague: I hope this relationship forge again.
13. Flattering: That you tell me those beautiful things is very flattering for me.
14. Tongue: My tongue of this shoe.
15. Mengüe: I hope the fumes wane early.
16. Nicaraguan: This flower is from a plant Nicaraguan.
17. Umbrella stand: Please do not enter the house with wet umbrellas, leave them in the umbrella stand.
18. Beggar: This cat is very begging, always wants to eat.
19. Multilingual: Says it is multilingual because he knows many languages.
20. Santigue: Tell him I know cross before entering.
21. Scoundrel: He came home and took all the money, the very scoundrel.
22. Ointment: Use this ointment if you want everything to be better.
23. Shame: I would like to make new friends, but it gives me shame.
24. Opossum: If you haven't seen one opossum in Europe it will be for something.

And now, as it may be obvious, we are going to know the most relevant examples of the words that contain "güi" with umlauts. These are less common than the previous ones, but there are still many. What we can find most are nouns (such as linguistics, for example) and diminutives (like umbrellas):

1. Agüista: We didn't have to wait too long until the agüista.
2. Agüita: Put me a little water in my glass, I'm thirsty.
3. Argue: There is no argue so soon, we still have time to think.
4. Bilingualism: The bilingualism It is a virtue that not everyone has.
5. Contiguity: You have not done the job with too much contiguity with his partners.
6. Enagüillas: I don't know where I left the enagüillas of the figure.
7. Exiguity: Regarding the availability of the product, there is enough exiguity.
8. Guira: This tree is a güira.
9. Guiro: You play the guitar that I will play the guiro.
10. Short Language: I'd like to talk to her, but it's a bit short tongue.
11. Linguist: I have studied many years to consider myself a linguist.
12. Linguistics: The linguistics it is the science that studies language.
13. Umbrellas: This umbrella is for children, rather it is a umbrellas.
14. Penguin rookery: I hope one day I can see one penguin colony, with all its penguins.
15. Penguin: With those gaits you look like a Penguin.
16. Canoeing: Now that we are on vacation we can go do canoeing.
17. Canoeist: I've always wanted to be canoeist professional.
18. Multilingualism: The multilingualism it occurs when someone knows many languages.
19. Yegüita: This mare she is newborn.