Capitalization in Spanish

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Luna: Gracias.

@SPX: It's not exhaustive, but most students will learn the details and exceptions over time.

[laepelba]

Glad that this is a sticky. Thanks, Malila!!

[jrivera]

As a general rule, you can think that in spanish you have to use capital letters only with proper names, or things that are unique, I mean, that there is only one of it.

Your name: there in only one Peter, but there are many Fridays viernes.

Also, when it comes to titles, we are begining to adopt the English rule of capitalizing every world: for example La Conjura de los Necios (is the title of a book), but very very formaly the correct way would be:

Estoy leyendo "La conjura de los necios" (you should also use " " or something similar)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Yes, Poli. "Occidente", "Poniente", "Levante", are subject to the same rule of being written with a capital letter.
[There are orthography notes about it in the DRAE for these words.]


@Rsheldon: It's just as striking to us that English capitalizes the days of the week and the months.

[Rsheldon]

Escrito originalmente por AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Rsheldon: It's just as striking to us that English capitalizes the days of the week and the months.

Haha fair enough.

[fglorca]

Lo del "norte" con mayúscula es nuevo para mí también.

Yo siempre había pensado que era:
"mi amigo vive en el norte de España"

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Para una explicación detallada de cada una, el conjunto completo de las reglas para usar las mayúsculas está en el Diccionario panhispánico de dudas. [Click aquí.]