What spanish word sound similar of the same as english words?

Question

Hospital in english is spelled the same and sounds similar in spanish. What other spanish and english words are like that?

Answer 1

Words such as these are called cognates, and are defined as, "words that are similar in two or more languages as a result of common descent." The more closely related two languages are, the more cognates they may have.

Some examples in Spanish are: abandon (abandonar), abnormal (abnormal), accent (acento), band (banda), bar (barra), bicycle (bicicleta), camel (camello), cape (capa), contact (contacto), dialect (dialecto), echo (eco), elegant (elegante), etc.

There are of course a great deal more, though not all are as similar as those above. The most complete list I could find is located [here] (http://www.latinamericalinks.com/spanish_cognates.htm).

Hope that helps!

Your link provides only a sample. I used to have a list (I lost it) with over 20,000 cognates. - lazarus1907, Sep 15, 2010

Answer 2

HI taty, welcome to the forum, please have a look at the threads supplied by Marie claire, thanks, if you have any specific question, don¡t hesitate to ask

Answer 3

Here's a couple

Spanish / English Cognates

and here's one or twenty thousand lol Cognate City

And here's some false friends to beware of!

False Friends

Answer 4

Hospital in english is spelled the same and sounds similar in spanish. What other spanish and english words are like that?

Many thousands of words, especially technical ones (Biology, Medicine, Physics, Philosophy,...) However, "hospital" does not sound that close: in Spanish the accent is on a different syllable, we don't pronounce the initial H, and the O, and the A are pronounced differently, and the P, the I and the T are not quite the same either. In other words, every single sound is either slightly different or quite different (although not completely different), but there is no exact sound match.

Answer 5

board=bordo

Answer 6

apartment and apartamento