Cómo hacer una tilde...

Question

Hello. I am going to share with you a couple helpful things to remember, whether you are an experienced SpanishDict user or a starting member here. As you may know, some Spanish vowels or the letter 'n' have accents above the letters. For example, when saying the Spanish word 'seis', one example of this word is 'séis'. What accent is that above the vowel? It is called a tilde. A tilde makes the vowel below it have a long vowel sound. A tilde is only above the five vowels a,e,i,o, and u. How to make a Tilde? Here's a mini guide.

á= type ALT+160. é= type ALT+130. í= type ALT+161. ó= type ALT+162. ú= type ALT+163.

The capital letters are...

Á= type ALT+0193 É= type ALT+0201 Í= type ALT+0205 Ó= type ALT+0211 Ú= type ALT+0218

I hoped this helped you

Nice job, but "seis" with a tilde does not exist because "ei" is a diphthong and the stress will always be on "e". An example of a tilde written to split a diphthong would be "país". - Jubilado, Nov 4, 2015

@Jubilado: What about "dieciséis" This is the proper way to spell 16. That also goes for "veintiséis" - Daniela2041, Nov 4, 2015

@Matjam. The tilde or "acento escrito" above a vowel tells you that that vowel should be stressed. The word "este" (this) has the stress on the first syllable. "esté" (subjuncitive of estar) has the stress on the last syllable. - Daniela2041, Nov 4, 2015

I think I have a post on SD somewhere about when and where to use tildes. - Daniela2041, Nov 4, 2015

I found it. I'm going to post it. - Daniela2041, Nov 5, 2015

@ Daniela: "veinteséis", etc have sylables with dipthongs, so the tilde is only necessary due to the rule of "esdrujula" as the final sylable on these words is stressed, rather than second to last sylable - 005faa61, Nov 5, 2015

Answer 1

The above commands are for Windows. If you have a Mac, the following should work:

á, é, í, ó, ú: Push Option + "E" at the same time. Let go, then push the desired letter.

ñ: Push Option and "N" at the same time. Let go, then push "n".

ü: Push Option and "U" at the same time. Let go, then push "u".

For capitals, just hold shift as you press the desired letter.

¿: Push Option + Shift + "/" at the same time. Let go.

¡: Push Option and "1" at the same time. Let go.

Answer 2

Nice guide Matjam! I think there are some other ones just like this, but this is still a very well done guide.

Answer 3

I think that the best way is to buy an Spanish keyboard, it only cost 5-10 euros.

This is certainly much easier than trying to rember all the formulas that the poster has suggested. I have a Spanish keyboard that I don´t even use because I find it easier to just set Spanish as an additional language through the control panel on the laptop and have done with it. There are only a few keys different that you need to memorize. I even have no problem typing in EN when the language is set to ES.

The only difference I have found among the different countries listed for ES is the way to type the arroba (@), ie: Mexico uses **alt with Q***.

Answer 4

I think that the best way is to buy an Spanish keyboard, it only cost 5-10 euros. I think that the English keyboard don't have any key that is not in the Spanish keyboard. If you have a laptop it is easier, you only have to connect the Spanish keyboard to the USB port and...practice.

Answer 5

And of course my favorite (because of the limitations of my laptop and because it also has the French ones). Click on the link, read the fourth answer down by Vikingo and follow his instructions.

Typing Accents - Ways to Cheat

Answer 6

Here's a link to how and when to use "tildes" o acentos escritos. I wrote this one several months ago.

when and where to use accent marks

Now there is also another set of "alt" codes for the tildes. They can be found on the "character map" in your computer. Here are the ones I have memorized. And these are the only ones that work for me.

á is alt+0225 .

é is alt+0233,

í is alt+0237,

ó is alt +0243,

ú is alt+ 0250,

ñ is alt + 0241,

¡ is alt+ 0161,

and ¿is alt + 0191. Be sure you hold the "alt" key down while typing the numbers on your numeric keypad. If you don't have a numeric keypad, I have no idea as to what you do.

Thanks to JRshenk. He showed me how to find my posts. Go to Google, type in Daniela2041(then whatever point of grammar I may have posted on. ) - Daniela2041, Nov 5, 2015

Regarding your comment "veintiséis" indeed exists with the accent on the "e" in the diphthong because it is the strong letter and to represent the pronunciation with the accent on "seis". - Jubilado, Nov 5, 2015

Thanks for reminding me of that word. - Jubilado, Nov 5, 2015