A quiz question says: "La palabra víspera tiene el tilde en la i"
Not relevant to the lesson, but I thought a tilde was the squiggle over the n (~), not the tick mark? Can it mean both?
Quiz question mentioning the tilde
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Quiz question mentioning the tilde
This question relates to:Spanish lesson "Conjugate Spanish stem-changing -er verbs: (o > ue) in the present subjunctive (El Presente de Subjuntivo)"
Asked 2 weeks ago
InmaKwiziq team member
Hola Andy
The word "tilde" in Spanish refers to both the acute accents on the vowels for stress purposes, like in "víspera, camión, lámpara, árbol...", and the line on top of the Spanish letter "ñ" as in "niño, España, año..." - but the tilde on the ñ is just part of the letter, to distinguish it from the letter "n" as in "Antonio, nunca, no, nariz...", because the ñ has a specific sound.
I hope this clarified it.
Saludos cordiales
Inma
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