Is a tilde the same thing in spanish?

Question

I know in english its the little squiggly thing as in (señor) but my spanish teacher is always saying the tilde (~) is actually the accent. Others I know who have not been brainwashed by her say its the tilde and that the other thing is the acento (accent)

Answer 1

In South America

A "TILDE" is the mark for the accent in the letters á é í ó ú .



[This is a text I copied from the web on the bottom.]

Tilde = Dot (¨) or dash (´) over a letter.

Acento = A character (Tilde) placed over a syllable to mark the

modulation of the voice.

Eñe = Spanish name of the letter Ñ



http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prwgw/accents.htm

Answer 2

A tilde is a marking. It doesn't matter what. So it's used to refer to both the áccent mark and the ñ. But don't worry, "el acento" is also a synonym for the accent mark (but not the squiggly).





Real Academía Española (RAE) definition for tilde: el que lleva la ñ, y cualquier otro signo que sirva para distinguir una letra de otra o denotar su acentuación. "What's put over the ñ and whatever other marking that might serve to differentiate a letter or denote its accentuation."



btw: Spanish used to have doubled consonants, and the double nn palatalized and converted to ñ....the squiggly is actually an abbreviation that got started that represents the second n.

Answer 3

A tilde is absolutely NOT an accent. an accent goes over a vowel, and shows that the stress falls someplace that it wouldn't naturally. (Sometimes it tells you the meaning of the word, or if the sentence is a question)



You are right, and (*gasp*!!) the teacher is wrong.



A tilde, (~) an umlaut (¨) an accent (´) a cedilla (ç) are DIACRITICAL marks.



An accent (´) is the only one called an accent (there are three types in French, but still...)

Answer 4

An ñ is not an "n" with an accent mark. It's its own letter. The ~ is not an accent mark in Spanish, it's not like é or ó, where the ´ is an accent on an exisiting letter. An "é" and an "e" are both an "e"; a "ñ" and an "n" are two different letters.



Does that help? Like if you were spelling something aloud, "león" would be "elle, aye, oo con acento, enne" and "señor" would be "esse, aye, enye, oo, erre"

"ó" is "oo con acento" because it's an "o" with an accent

but

"ñ" is "enye" NOT "enne con acento" because it's its own letter, NOT an "n" with an accent.

Answer 5

It's not the accent it's the tilde. If you're talking about it you would call it the "enye" in spanish. At least that's how you would pronounce it, not write it. An accent mark is like this: á

Answer 6

that thing above the "ñ" is actually called "virgulilla" and it is not an accent mark because it just makes a letter.

Meanwhile, tilde is this one --> áéíóú .. well that thing above.. ´



you can also say "acento" instead of "tilde"