“Hola” does not have an accent, it has a stressed syllable. This word literally means “hello” and sticks to the rule that says if a word ends on a vowel, an “s,” or an “n,” the stress falls on the second-to-last syllable. In this case, it is the first syllable: ho-la.

Gracias is a feminine noun, and it’s also plural. Mucho is an adjective. Adjectives should always match noun’s gender and number, so it should be muchas → muchas gracias.

No. The “-ia-” in “gracias” is a diphthong, and “-cias” is therefore treated as one syllable (not two). Thus, “gra-” is the next-to-last syllable, and in a word ending in “s”, the next-to-last syllable is stressed by default, so no accent mark is needed.

“Mi” (no accent) translates to “my”, as in “my friend/mi amigo”. “Mí (with accent) translates to “me” as in “for me/para mí”.

If you are learning Spanish, you should know that the word hello(hola) carries no accent mark, the accent(stressed syllable) of this word is on the ho syllable, but it has not accent mark…for that reason is not correct (is wrong) to write hóla.

Think of words like estudiante, libros, and habla. So if you have a word that ends in a consonant (except n or s) and you want to put the stress someplace besides the last syllable, you have to write in an accent. Like with the word lápiz.

In Spanish, the accent marks are used solely for the purpose of indicating stress: where the stress does not fall at the default location (i.e. second to the last syllable), then it is betokened by an accent (cf ‘próximo’). That is not the rule .” María” for example should not have acute accent according to that.

The word historia is oxytone because the tonic syllable is the penultimate syllable. It does not have a graphic accent because it is paroxytone and ends in ‘n’, ‘s’ or vowel. The word historia does not have dipthong nor triptongo nor hiato.

Examen, singular, has no written accent.

Keyboard Shortcuts

1. For accented vowels, press Ctrl + ‘, then the vowel you want to accent.
2. For the Spanish ñ, press Ctrl + ~, then the n key.

Simply hold down the key of the letter you need to add an accent mark to, and a little window will pop up with a list of accents to choose from. Each choice is given a number, and by typing the number after releasing the letter key, the letter with the chosen accent will appear.