Typing Spanish Accents. If you followed the above directions carefully, your keyboard will now react slightly differently than it did before. First of all, notice that if you strike the single apostrophe (‘) key, nothing happens. To type the single apostrophe now, you must strike the single apostrophe key and then strike the space bar. Accent marks (also referred to as diacritics or diacriticals) usually appear above a character. One exception is the cedilla, which appears directly underneath the letter c; several less common accent marks appear next to the character.
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edited September 2011 in Spanish
¿Cuántas veces has intentado escribir un correo electrónico o documento en español y no has sabido como teclear los acentos o símbolos especiales?
How many times have you tried to write an email or a document in Spanish and you can't find the way to type accents and special characters?
It happened to me plenty of times while using an american computer. Here it is a quick list!
TO TYPE ACCENTS ON A MAC:
á é í ó ú -> press together (Option + e) and then the vowel.
Á É Í Ó Ú -> press together (Option e) and then press together (Shift + the vowel)
ü -> press together (Option + u) and then u again.
Ü -> press together (Option + u) and then press together (Shift + u)
ñ -> press (Option + n) and then n again.
Ñ -> press Option + n) and then press together (Shift + n)
¡ -> press (Option + 1) or OPTION + the key where ! sing is.
¿ -> (Option + Shift + ?) Press the 3 keys together.
TO TYPE ACCENTS ON WINDOWS:
á é í ó ú -> press together (Control + Alt) and then the vowel
ñ -> Alt + 164
Ñ -> Alt + 165
ü -> Alt + 129
¡ -> Alt + 173
¿ ->Alt + 168
How many times have you tried to write an email or a document in Spanish and you can't find the way to type accents and special characters?
It happened to me plenty of times while using an american computer. Here it is a quick list!
TO TYPE ACCENTS ON A MAC:
á é í ó ú -> press together (Option + e) and then the vowel.
Á É Í Ó Ú -> press together (Option e) and then press together (Shift + the vowel)
ü -> press together (Option + u) and then u again.
Ü -> press together (Option + u) and then press together (Shift + u)
ñ -> press (Option + n) and then n again.
Ñ -> press Option + n) and then press together (Shift + n)
¡ -> press (Option + 1) or OPTION + the key where ! sing is.
¿ -> (Option + Shift + ?) Press the 3 keys together.
TO TYPE ACCENTS ON WINDOWS:
á é í ó ú -> press together (Control + Alt) and then the vowel
ñ -> Alt + 164
Ñ -> Alt + 165
ü -> Alt + 129
¡ -> Alt + 173
¿ ->Alt + 168
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Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Blackfoot, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Kazakh, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a. It is sometimes confused with à; e.g. '5 apples á $1', which is more commonly written as '5 apples à $1' (meaning '5 apples at 1 dollar each').
- 1Usage in various languages
Usage in various languages[edit]
Chinese[edit]
In Chinese pinyin á is the yángpíng tone (陽平/阳平 'high-rising tone') of 'a'.
Dutch[edit]
In Dutch, the Á is used to put emphasis on an 'a', either in a long 'a' form like in háár ('hair'), or in a short form like in kán (the verb 'can').
Irish[edit]
In Irish, á is called a fada ('long a'), pronounced [ɑː] and appears in words such as slán ('goodbye'). It is the only diacritic used in Modern Irish, since the decline of the dot above many letters in the Irish language. Fada is only used on vowel letters i.e. á, é, í, ó, ú. It symbolises a lengthening of the vowel.
Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak[edit]
Á is the 2nd letter of the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages and represents /aː/.
Faroese[edit]
Á is the 2nd letter of the Faroese alphabet and represents /ɔ/ or /ɔaː/.
Icelandic[edit]
Á is the second letter of the Icelandic alphabet and represents /au̯/ (as in 'ow').
Kazakh[edit]
Á is the second letter of the Kazakh Latin alphabet and represents /æ/. Its Cyrillic form is Ә.
Portuguese[edit]
In Portuguese, á is used to mark a stressed /a/ in words whose stressed syllable is in an abnormal location within the word, as in lá (there) and rápido (rapid, fast). If the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, the acute accent is not used. Á /a/ contrasts with â, pronounced /ɐ/.
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Á was once used in Scottish, but has now been largely superseded by à. It can still be seen in certain writings, but it is no longer used in standard orthography.
Spanish[edit]
In Spanish, á is an accented letter, pronounced just the way a is. Both á and a sound like /a/. The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. It can also be used to 'break up' a diphthong or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen with á, because a is a strong vowel and usually does not become a semivowel in a diphthong. See Diacritic and Acute accent for more details.
Vietnamese[edit]
In the Vietnamese alphabet, á is the sắc tone (high-rising tone) of a.
Welsh[edit]
In Welsh, word stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, but one way of indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is through the use of the acute accent. The acute accent on a is often found in verbal nouns and borrowed words, for example, casáu[kaˈsaɨ̯, kaˈsai̯ ] 'to hate', caniatáu[kanjaˈtaɨ̯, kanjaˈtai̯] 'to allow', carafán[karaˈvan] 'caravan'.
Character mappings[edit]
Character | Á | á | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 193 | U+00C1 | 225 | U+00E1 |
UTF-8 | 195 129 | C3 81 | 195 161 | C3 A1 |
Numeric character reference | Á | Á | á | á |
Named character reference | Á | á | ||
EBCDIC family | 101 | 65 | 69 | 45 |
ISO 8859-1/2/3/4/9/10/14/15/16 | 193 | C1 | 225 | E1 |
See also[edit]
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