Accents: example #20 director
I'm trying to understand and categorize the given rules (very helpful, btw) -- why does director not have an accent on the 'rec'? Since the word ends in a consonant, it seems the natural accent would fall on the last syllable, but does not; it thus seems the preultimate syllable should have one. Ayudame por favor.
A now a general related question: are there a lot of words in spanish where the masculine word ends in a consonant, and the feminine version in an 'a', where the masculine has an accent and feminine version does not?
thanks so much
4 Answers
The stress on the word director falls on the last syllable, direcTOR.
It is very easy to build a large vocabulary of Spanish words. In fact, you already know thousands of English words that become Spanish words if you change them very slightly. These words fall into several large categories. The first and easiest category is made up of words which end in 'or.' These words are often identical in Spanish and English. Spanish words that end in 'or' are stressed on the last syllable. Example: docTOR. The letter 'r' is trilled in Spanish.
Taken from: Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
The stress on the word director falls on the last syllable, direcTOR.
As the others say the stress is on the or, listen to the video in the dictionary link text
Since the word ends in a consonant, it seems the natural accent would fall on the last syllable,
but does not;
says who? jeje
