+ than 100 examples of HIATOS

A hiatus is when two vowels in a row are pronounced in two strokes of the voice, that is, they are in two different syllables. To understand these two concepts better, it will be necessary to know the types of vowels that there are: weak or closed vowels and strong or open vowels. A diphthong is formed with a weak or closed vowel plus any vowel (weak or strong). Instead, a hiatus will be formed with two strong vowels or a strong vowel plus a weak one with a graphic accent. You will understand this explanation much better in the video through the examples that I will show you.

But to understand what hiatuses are, it is best to see many examples of words that have hiatuses and in those cases examples of how to separate them. Next, in a PROFESSOR we show you many examples separated by in which vowel is the hiatus. If you have questions or want to share with all users hiatus examples You can do it using the comments field and we will be happy to answer you and help you differentiate the gaps.

Index

1. What is the hiatus? With examples
2. The vowel combinations that are Hiatus
3. Examples of hiatus í-a
4. Example of hiatus with i-o
5. Examples of sentences with hiatus
6. Example of hiatuses with intermediate h
7. Example of hiatuses with strong vowels
8. Examples of hiatus words with a strong vowel and a weak stressed vowel
9. Example of hiatus with i-o:
10. 13 words with hiatus separated into syllables
11. Examples of hiatuses without accents
12. Other examples of hiatuses

To know what a hiatus is, it is important that we take into account the classification of vowels in the Spanish language. You should know that vowels can be of 2 types:

• Open: a, e, o
• Closed: i, u

Once you are clear about this concept, it is important that you know that the hiatus is when some of these combinations of vowels (open and closed, open and open, etc.) are united but are in syllables independent. The hiatus separates, the diphthong joins.

Types of hiatuses in Spanish

Depending on the type of vowel that joins, we are faced with one type of hiatus or another. Here we discover which are the 3 kinds of hiatuses that we can find in the Spanish language. They are as follows:

1. Open and closed vowel or vice versa with a check mark in the closed. It would be the example of TRUNK that would separate ba-úl
2. Open vowel with open. An example of this type of hiatus would be the word CHAOS that separates ca-os
3. Equal vowels. In these cases, the vowels are the same and are united in the word (two a, two o, two u, etc.). An example of such a hiatus is the word READ that is separated from read

There are two types of hiatus:

• The Accentual Hiatus (or hiatus due to dissolution, provoked or adiphthong) is a type of hiatus that results from the meeting between a open vowel (a, e, o) with a closed vowel (i, u) that is accented so it must have an accent obligatorily. Some examples of accent hiatus: sa-ú-com, sa-bí-a, dí-a, cal-ma-rí-a, go-h-ass, Ma-rí-a
• The Simple Hiatus is one that consists of the separation into different syllables of two open vowels (a, e, o) or two closed vowels (i, u) equal. Some simple hiatus examples: ca-o-ba, sa-e-ta, se-mi-in-cons-cien-te, zo-ó-lo-go, a-or-ta, co-or-di-nar

Thousands of words in Spanish have the hiatus í-a for this reason this is going to be the most common example of hiatus, below we put dozens of words separated by syllables so you can see how they separate:

• Country: Country
• Paradise: Pa-ra-í-so
• Corn: Corn
• Cain: Ca-ín
• Root: Root
• Cocaine: Co-ca-i-na
• Removable: Ex-tra-í-ble
• Bookshelf: Es-so-te-rí-a
• Etiology: E-tio-lo-gí-a
• Geography: Ge-o-gra-fí-a
• Bay: Ba -hí-a
• Surgery: Ci-ru-gí-a
• Locksmith: Ce-rra-je-rí-a

Many words are written with í-o, here are some examples of words that have this type of hiatus:

• Cold Cold
• Period: Pe-rí-o-do
• Jew: Ju-dí-o
• River river
• Gloomy: som-bri-o
• Ethiopian: e-ti-o-pe
• Mess: li-o
• Mine: mi-o
• Uncle: ti-o
• Crio: cri-o

One of the best ways to identify a hiatus is by detecting it in a sentence, here are several examples of words that contain a hiatus in a sentence:

• I don't want to FALL on the stairs.
• My mom got Dizzy.
• The notes WOULD be for tomorrow
• When the RIVER sounds it always BRINGS water
• Juan went to the THEATER.
• There is a fish in the river
• Spain is a country
• Eduar studies GEOMETRY at María's house.
• My brother is very SELFISH with his things.
• My mom is a BIOLOGY teacher.
• Mine belongs to me

The h intermediate or interleaved does not influence the consideration as diphthong or as hiatus of a vowel sequence; thus, there are groups of vowels with h intermedia that form diphthong. Here are some examples of hiatuses with interspersed h:

• Stubborn
• Save money
• Owl
• Alcohol
• Hang
• Basil
• Saver
• Hanged
• I forbid
• Turboprop

When the vowels form each syllable separately in a voice emission, there will be a hiatus. This occurs when they are together two strong vowels (a, e, o), or a strong vowel with a weak tonic (í, ú), or two equal weak vowels that require double pronunciation of the vowel (ii, uu):

• Zoo
• Archaeologist
• Mahogany
• Theater
• aerial
• Wish
• Hero
• Line
• Diarrhea
• Cocoa

Examples of words with hiatus with a strong vowel and a weak accented one, if you want to see the table of how the vowels combine you can see it in the previous point:

• River
• Smile
• Liquefied
• Gather
• Trunk
• Corn
• Country
• Ran
• Slept
• Hearing

• Wasteland
• Brave
• Hamlet
• I trust
• Summer
• Montepio
• Ship
• Shouting

So that you can finish better understanding this lesson about hiatuses in Spanish, below we want to leave you a complete list with words with hiatus separated in syllables. In this way, you can put your knowledge into practice and do your homework in a much easier way. Take note!

1. Abstracted: ABS - TRA - Í - DO
2. Fall: CA - Í - DA
3. Judaism: JU - DA - ÍS - MO
4. Corn: MA - ÍZ
5. Coffin: A - TA - ÚD
6. Lute: LA - ÚD
7. Atheist: A - TE - O
8. Caffeine: CA - FE - Í - NA
9. Selfish: E - GO - ÍS - TA
10. Taoist: TA - O - ÍS - TA
11. Bay: BA - HÍ - A
12. Vehicle: VE - HÍ - CU - LO
13. Agony: A - GO - NÍ - A

You may also want to know some examples of hiatuses without accents, since this type of word is usually more difficult to detect. Here we leave you a list with these words without accent and that, thus, you can improve your knowledge about the hiatus in Spanish.

• Ride
• Poet
• Poem
• Cleanliness
• Village
• Hero
• Canoe
• Teacher
• Evaluate
• Chaos
• West
• Airplane
• Basil

Here are many examples of hiatuses:

• Dizziness
• geology
• Trunk
• Fall
• Zoo
• Owl
• Save money
• Shiite
• Vacio
• Hacía
• Baúl
• Ataúd
• Raiz
• Rheyr
• Tramía
• Caigives
• Maiz
• Seaía
• Frheyr
• Comeíawe
• Continueduo
• Capicúa
• To winías
• Garúa
• Eoliquor
• Seaeo
• Orthographía

Here is a video of mine that shows you not only some more examples of hiatuses but also explains the theory of how to recognize hiatuses.

In addition, we recommend that you read this other lesson from a Teacher in which we explain what the difference between diphthongs and hiatuses with examples to make it easier for you to study them.

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