What is a 'aguda'?
Hi, I'm doing my spanish homework. can you help me? what is a aguda?
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Since your new, let me add the admonition first thing that when asking for word meanings you have to provide context.
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If it concerns homework the context is probably referring to the pronunciation of words or more specifically on which syllable to place the stress within a word.
Words than end in consonants other than n,s are termed "aguda" and the stress falls on the last syllable of the word.
abril=a-bril stress falls on the last syllable since the word ends in "l", a consonant other than n,s.
Another possible context might be concerning the Spanish accent mark or tilde. It is an acute accent mark (unlike the one typically put on a QWERTY keyboard). In Spanish this is an "acento agudo" é rather than è.
Grave and aguda can also refer to high and low musical notes.
I saw this word in the following headline: "¿unirá a los dos naciónes o creará aguda controversia dentro Cubanos?" In this context it means "sharp controversy". So in a sense the word means dangerous, sharp, painful. Also depends on the context.
Can you give the context (the rest of the phrase)?
