¿dos acentos?

¿dos acentos?
 

¡Che!

Se puede tener dos acentos en una palabra?

"....como él le enseñó"



gracias

No hay dos acentos, sino uno, en la "ó". La "ñ" es una letra por sí misma, no una "n" modificada.

right, Spanish words have only one accent (right?)

Mienstras hablamos sobre (about?) acentos, ¿hay más que un acento en español? yo sé "ó"

Los acentos son todos cerrados (á, é, í, ó, ú), no existen en español acentos abiertos como en francés o en catalán (à, è, etc.).

The only diacritical marks used in Spanish are á, é, í, ó, ú, and ü. (and their capitalized counterparts). ñ or Ñ is considered a separate letter.

!Bien! ¡Un acento hará mi trabajo fácil!

¿Cómo es este acento, "Barça"?

From Wikipedia:

It represents the "soft" sound /s/ where a "c" would normally represent the "hard" sound /k/ (before "a", "o", "u", or at the end of a word), in the following languages:

• Catalan. Known as ce trencada (that is, "broken C") in this language. Some examples of words with "c"-cedilla are: torçut "twisted", ço "this", braç "arm", falç "sickle", voraç "voracious", caçar "to hunt", llançar "to throw". A well-known word with this character is Barça, a common Catalan diminutive for the c one of Barcelona's football teams, also used across the world, including by the Spanish-language media.

OMG! That is great. I learned something new today!

¡Gracias!

:applause:
Little things make me happy.

@bobjenkins: "Barça" no es una palabra en español, sino en catalán. La c-cedilla ("ç") no existe en español.

Not every "modification" to a letter is considered an "acento", and as David said, there are only five cases of written accents in Spanish: á, é, í, ó, ú.
They obey strict rules to mark the tonic syllable when it's needed.

Don't forget ü.

Technically, the (´) is an acute accent mark. The (¨) is an umlaut, sometimes called a diaeresis or trema. They are both diacriticals. In some languages the tilde (~) is considered a diacritical, but in Spanish it is not. The ñ is considered a separate letter. The history of the ñ is interesting-- its use arose as an abbreviation of the double n (nn).

¡AH! Es múy bien:) Yo pronouncía "Barça" /barka/ pero es /barsa/:lol:


gracias

Not many people know that! :)

Excellent point.

True, as David said they're both diacriticals.
Still, I never learnt the "diéresis" as an accent in Spanish: it is used to pronounce a letter that you normally wouldn't without it, while accents are used to stress syllables.


@David: thank you for the historical data... I had never thought about the origin of "ñ". :)