Esdrújulas words with accent and without accent

In Spanish the words have a certain accentuation. It is different depending on what point we put the intonation strength of every word. The accentuation can be marked by using accents or not and there are different types of it taking into account where the stressed syllable of the word is located. In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to show you what esdrújulas words with accent and without accent plus examples so you can learn to easily identify them.

First of all we must know what the accent and what types of accentuation exist. The accent is the major intensity with which one of the syllables is pronounced that appear in every word. On which syllable this force falls is called stressed syllable and the rest of them are considered unstressed syllables. The stressed syllables may be indicated by a tilde that will indicate where the strength of the syllables is.

Depending on the position that the stressed syllable takes within the word in question, we can speak of three types of accentuations:

• Wordsflat: are those that have an accent on the penultimate syllable.
• Wordssharp: its stressed syllable is always on the last syllable.
• Sdrugal words: stress is on the third to last syllable.

To better understand it, let's see some examples of each of them:

• Plain words: dog, fly, window, coin, car.
• Sharp words: truck, tractor, Columbus, acting, script, heart.
• Words esdrújulas: bat, fantastic, cell, graphic, fable, athletic.

Now you know what the words esdrújulas are and where their stressed syllable is located, so we can go on to define when they do or do not have an accent. The first rule to keep in mind is that the esdrújulas are always accentuated, but you are may or may not have an accent or graphic accent. In this case, it is an accent called prosodic.

The words esdrújulas are not the most abundant, so they can be differentiated very easily when have the graphic accent on the third to last syllable. Let's look at some more examples of esdrújulas words to verify that all of them have a tilde.

• Centimeter
• Geological
• Cover
• America
• Warm
• Movie
• Aphonic
• Chemical
• Rhetoric
• Romantic
• Skeptical
• Number
• Tentacle
• Telephone
• Scientific
• Trees
• Triangle
• Ecological
• Vertigo

The exception that proves the rule

As we have already pointed out, the words esdrújulas always carry an accent, but there is an exception. On some occasions these words, although they have a tonic accent that indicates that it is an esdrújula word, appears without an accent.

These cases are very easy to identify since they are the adverbs that end in –mente. In other words, when we come across a word of this type, it is very likely that it does not have an accent in the place we think or does not directly carry it even though it is esdrújula.

Adverbs ending in -mind They are always accentuated taking into account the accentuation of the original word, that is, when placing the accent in them we must always do so ignoring the existence of the ending -mind. In order to understand it better, let's see some examples:

• Boldly: if we separate the ending we will see that the word bold It is watered down and in this case does not have an accent.

Other cases may be the following:

• Popularly
• Equally
• Quietly
• Mentally
• Quietly
• Popularly
• Historically: in this case we find that it does appear accentuated, what is the reason? That the word historical it is a word esdrújula and that therefore appears with a tilde in its original form.

The overdrives

These are the least frequent words in terms of accentuation, they can be included within the esdrújulas and they are the ones that place their stressed syllable in syllable before the penultimate. They only appear when we are faced with verb forms that have several personal pronouns together. We can see the following examples:

• Let him know: in this case we see that the word is composed of communicates+ I know +it. Here it will always appear with a tilde, as in the case of esdrújulas.
• Tell us
• Bring it

Here is a list with more esdrújulas words of all kinds so that you can identify them and differentiate them from the rest of the words:

• Academic
• Arab
• Commercially
• Forcefully
• Spouse
• Tell me
• Scrawny
• Esdrújula
• Ecstasy
• Familiarly
• Do it
• Hero
• Illegally
• Jurassic
• Legally
• Magical
• Obstacle
• Ocean
• Orthographic
• Bird
• Parish priest
• Pyramid
• Recondite
• Ridiculous
• Sabbatical
• Sarcastic
• Satanic
• Sepal
• Utopian
• Vandal
• Snake

We hope that this lesson on sdrugal words with accents and without accents has helped you understand what they are and when and how they are accentuated. In our sections of Spanish language You can find more examples on topics related to spelling and grammar that can be very useful. We encourage you to take a look at them.