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I know that when hooking pronouns onto commands in Spanish, an accent is required to maintain the correct pronunciation. Ex. Lávalo! But, sometimes I don't know where to put the accent: For example, I'm confused with limpiarlo, preparala, envuelvelos, etc. I've heard that you place the accent on the third-to-last-syllable, but that only works for commands with two syllables (before hooking the pronoun on. It doesn't work for commands like prepara, envuelve, limpiar, entiende, etc. So, is there a general rule for where I can put accents in such situations? Additional examples: Estúdialo and límpialo. Those accents are NOT over the third-to-last syllable, they are over the fourth to last syllable, so I was thinking the rule did not apply to commands with more than two syllables?

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updated Dec 1, 2012
posted by gwenafricanus

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Hi.. Check out these two links from our reference section:

Accents

Tildes

updated Dec 1, 2012
posted by francobollo