Este vs Éste en una frase

Question

¿Por qué la palabra "este" tiene una tilde aquí?

Éste es un palacio en Rusia

Pero no tiene una tilde aquí.

Este castillo está cerca del océano.

Gracias por la repuesta.

Answer 1

Éste/Ésta/Éstos/Éstas act as a Subject in the sentence, that's why they carry a "tilde". Éste es un palacio en Rusia. Here "éste" is the subject, it is a pronoun. Éste has a meaning that we can work out because of the context.
Este castillo está cerca del océano. Here the subject is "este castillo" where este is just a demonstrative adjective and castillo is the "important word", the "meaningful" one.
Imagine we are looking at a photo of a group of old ladies and I point at one and say: "Ésta es mi abuela" you can work out that by saying "ésta" I mean "esta señora". "Esta señora es mi abuela".

Oh and I forgot to say that most of the times it is not compulsory to write these "tildes", it is only required to avoid ambiguity in a few sentences - evika133, Mar 17, 2013

Answer 2

Good question.

The simple answer is that demonstrative pronouns "this, that, etc." used to require a tilde/accent mark. The official rules of Spanish no longer require them, but you still may see them in some older writings.

In 1959 the Real Academia Española, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language, ruled in its revised spelling rulesthat the written accent is only required to remove certain ambiguities, the type of which almost never appear in written Spanish. Thus, in practice, the written accent is not required.

That interesting thanks. - gohern, Mar 17, 2013

Answer 3

The tilde is not to be used anymore, the RAE modifed the rule and now it's incorrect to place a tilde on these pronouns. Here you'll find a short explanation, in Spanish

Answer 4

Beautifully written poem! Nice pattern. I just copied all the sentences into the translator to get the translation in English. I learned some new words like this:

Gracias means "Thank you" Castillo means "Castle" Palacio means "Palace" Rusia means "Russia"

But in the first sentence, the dictionary confuses me. They each give different meanings. Could you tell me which of the above is correct?

Why is the word 'East' a tilde here?

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Why the word does 'this one' have a tilde here?