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Originally Posted by alpinegroove
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But in this respect, Spanish is a
million times easier than English, because the written accent always tells you where to stress the word.
If there is NO accent, the word is stressed on the next to last syllable if they end in a vowel, n or s, and on the final syllable if they end with a consonant which is not n or s
Otherwise, the stress is where the accent is. Dead easy.
As far as I can see, this is the only grammatical rule which has no exception.