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whats a word in spanish that starts with che

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i have a project due for my spanish class and my spanish wants us to have all the letters even the letters that have been dropped. and i cant fnd a word for "Che" and i need help.

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updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by autumn_dupuis123
You have already found it! - kmaakheru, Oct 13, 2011
noone knows?! - autumn_dupuis123, Oct 13, 2011
Welcome to the forum :) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 13, 2011

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This might be of use smile The Spanish Alphabet

It may interest you to know that as recently as 2010, the Spanish alphabet, as recognized by the RAE, included two other letters, ch and ll, which were considered separate letters. They continue to have distinctive pronunciations (just as do "ch" and "sh" in English).

There also have been other changes over the years in the Spanish alphabet as well as disagreements over what's included:

The W (sometimes referred to as doble ve) and K, which exist almost exclusively in words of foreign origin, such as kilowatt, haven't always been considered part of the alphabet. Some authorities once considred the RR (erre doble), which isn't pronounced the same as R, as as a separate letter. For many years, when ch was considered a separate letter, it would affect alphabetization, so that the word achatar would be listed after acordar in dictionaries. But the alphabetization rules were changed long before ch was dropped as a letter, so that Spanish dictionaires long have alphabetized words as they were in English (except that the ñ came after the n). The y used to be known as the y griega ("Greek y") to distinguish it from the i or i latina ("Latin i"). You'll still hear that name used and likely will for years to come.

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by Kiwi-Girl
omg! thank you soooo* muchh! you dont understand how much this is going to help me for my project (: - autumn_dupuis123, Oct 13, 2011
ahh, thanks girl! it means alot♥ - autumn_dupuis123, Oct 13, 2011
my pleasure :) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 13, 2011
Doble U or doble Ve ? - kmaakheru, Oct 13, 2011
doble u sometimes in Latin America but technically I think double ve, uve doble, ves dobles or uves dobles or any of the above lol :) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 13, 2011
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Old Spanish coraçon, cabeça, fuerça became modern corazón, cabeza, fuerza.

¡Qué chévere¡ smile

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updated Oct 14, 2011
edited by Kiwi-Girl
posted by Kiwi-Girl
Thanks :D - autumn_dupuis123, Oct 13, 2011
hopefully that's what you meant - the letter ‹ç› (c-cedilla) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 13, 2011
it iss (: thankss! - autumn_dupuis123, Oct 13, 2011
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I latina vs I griega from the same link above:

I Because of its origin, it is occasionally known as i latina ('Latin ‹i›') to distinguish it from i griega ('Greek ‹i›').

I Griega[1] The most common form is i griega, but it has been superseded by ye in an effort to standardize on a single-word name as opposed to a two-worded one. The name ye is one of the newest proposed changes specified by the 2010 new common orthography. Its aim is to standardize on a single-word name for this letter (as opposed to i griega).[1]

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by Kiwi-Girl
and that young lady is enough homework help je je :) - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 13, 2011
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Here's another good article: Spanish Orthography smile Next time you could also try listening in class je je raspberry

Older conventions In Old Spanish, ‹x› was used to represent the voiceless palatal sound /?/ (as in dixo 'he/she said'), while ‹j› represented the voiced palatal /?/ (as in fijo 'son'). With the changes of sibilants in the 16th century, the two sounds merged as /?/ (later to become velar /x/), and the letter ‹j› was chosen for the single resulting phoneme. When Cervantes wrote Don Quixote he spelled the name in the old way (and English preserves the ‹x›), but modern editions in Spanish spell it with ‹j›. For the use of ‹x› in Mexico — and in the name México itself — see below. The letter ‹ç› (c-cedilla) — which was first used in Old Spanish — is now obsolete in Spanish, having merged with ‹z› in a process similar to that of ‹x› and ‹j›. Old Spanish coraçon, cabeça, fuerça became modern corazón, cabeza, fuerza. Words formerly spelled with ‹ze› or ‹zi› (such as catorze, dezir, and vezino) are now written with ‹ce› and ‹ci› (catorce, decir, vecino, respectively). The sequences ‹ze› and ‹zi› do not occur in modern Spanish; even the borrowed words for 'zebra' and 'zinc' are cebra and cinc. The old spellings with ‹x›, ‹ç›, ‹ze›, and ‹zi› remained in use through the fifteenth century. They were mostly replaced by ‹j›, ‹z›, ‹ce›, and ‹ci›, respectively around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; since the eighteenth century, only the newer forms have been used.[8] The first edition of Don Quixote (1605), however, used the conservative spellings. Words spelled in modern Spanish with ‹cua› (e.g. cuando, cuatro, etc.) were written with ‹qua› up until around 1815.[9] In the second half of the 18th century, most double consonants are simplified (e.g. grammatica ? gramática, addicion ? adición)—but the ‹m› of a prefix before the ‹m› of a root is differentiated to ‹n› (e.g. "commover ? conmover"). And the Graeco-Latin digraphs ‹ch›, ‹ph›, ‹(r)rh› and ‹th› are reduced to to ‹c›, ‹f›, ‹(r)r› and ‹t›, respectively (e.g. christiano ? cristiano, triumpho ? triunfo, myrrha ? mirra, theatro ? teatro). The use of accent marks in publishing varies with different historical periods, due mainly to reforms promulgated by the Spanish Royal Academy. For example, many of the words that are today standardly written with an accent mark appeared more often without it up until around 1880. These include words with final stress ending in -n (e.g. capitán, también, jardín, acción, común — but not future-tense verb forms like serán, tendrán);[10][11] verbs in the imperfect tense (e.g. tenía, vivían);[12] the possessives mío and mía;[13] and the word día.[14] Meanwhile, one-letter words other than the conjunction y — namely the preposition a and the conjunctions e (the form of y before an [i] sound), o, and u (form of o before [o]) — are generally written with accent marks from the mid 1700s to about 1910.[15][16] The accent-marked infinitive oír begins to outnumber the unaccented form around 1920.[17] Monosyllabic preterit verb forms such as dio and fue were usually written with accent marks before the 1950s.[18] The names of numbers in the upper teens and the twenties were originally written as three words (e.g. diez y seis, veinte y nueve), but nowadays they have come to be spelled predominantly as a single word (e.g. dieciséis, veintinueve). For the numbers from 21 to 29, the "fused" forms emerged over the second half of the 19th century.[19] For those from 16 to 19, the one-word forms took the lead in the 1940s.[20] Fusing of number-names above 30 (e.g. treinticinco, cuarentiocho) is rare.

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by Kiwi-Girl
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I need to know a word that starts with the letter "che" in spanish!

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by autumn_dupuis123
Che is a word in the dictionary. - katydew, Oct 13, 2011
So too is chévere. The question was for a word without an historical reference, only one that starts with the letter che. - kmaakheru, Oct 13, 2011
How about : chef, cheque, chequear - Linus999, Oct 13, 2011
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annyone have anything that starts with a "i" in spanish?

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by autumn_dupuis123
have you been taught about this - do you mean the i latina? as opposed to the i griega? - Kiwi-Girl, Oct 13, 2011
i honestly dont know, i just have to do this thing for spanish and i cant think of any words that start with "i" and i do think it is that latina. and i have been taught just dont really pay atention. - autumn_dupuis123, Oct 13, 2011
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el cheque, chequear

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by Rey_Mysterio
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¡Hola Chica! Lo que necesitas es un diccionario de tipo antigua, en un libro. Con este puedes buscar todas las palabras que quierrías por orden alfabético.

What you need is an oldfashioned dictionary in a book form. With such a book you can find all the words you would like, in alphabetical order. ¡ Suerte!

updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by annierats
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inteligente ~ intelligent

imagen ~ image

impaciente ~ impatient

impuesto ~ tax

incluír ~ to include

intervíu ~ interview

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updated Oct 14, 2011
posted by TexanChick