acento

/aˈθento/, [aˈθẽn̪.t̪o]

accent


Examples
  • Habla inglés con un fuerte acento alemán.

    He speaks English with a strong German accent.

  • Los demás niños en la escuela se burlaron de él por su acento extraño.

    The other kids at school made fun of him because of his strange accent.

  • El síndrome del acento extranjero es una condición médica todavía no aclarada, en la cual el paciente no puede pronunciar su lengua materna correctamente y parece tener un acento extranjero.

    Foreign accent syndrome is an as-yet unexplained medical condition where the patient can no longer pronounce his mother tongue correctly and seems to have a foreign accent.

  • No podía entender su acento.

    I couldn't understand her accent.

  • Por alguna extraña razón, hablo con mis perros con acento irlandés.

    For some strange reason I talk to me dogs with an Irish accent.

  • Él era un francés, como lo deduje por su acento.

    He was a Frenchman, as I discovered from his accent.

  • Mis dedos pronuncian cada palabra, cada pausa y cada acento.

    My fingers pronounce every word, every pause and every accent.

  • Por su acento, supongo que ese hombre es escocés.

    From his accent, I would guess that man is Scottish.

  • Habla sin acento.

    He speaks without an accent.

  • Se burló de mi acento.

    He made fun of my accent.

  • Tom tiene un fuerte acento alemán.

    Tom has a heavy German accent.

  • Habla inglés con un acento alemán.

    He speaks English with a German accent.

  • Habla sin ningún acento.

    He speaks without an accent.

  • La gente que no pone un acento circunflejo a râler me cruzan los cables.

    People that don't put a circumflex accent on "râler" piss me off.

  • Entendí por su acento que era estadounidense.

    I understood from his accent that he was an American.

  • En portugués, todas las palabras esdrújulas llevan acento.

    In Portuguese, every word stressed on the antepenultimate syllable has a diacritical mark.

  • Su acento da a suponer que él es un extranjero.

    His accent suggests he is a foreigner.

  • Tengo acento carioca cuando hablo portugués.

    I have a Carioca accent when I speak Portuguese.


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