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What have I missed? Can you think of any others? If you enjoyed this post then make sure you check out the Spanish Conversation Hacking Guide, in there you will find the 1000 most useful Spanish words based on frequency use in the Spanish language (and that aren’t cognates!). There you have it, not all, but a good summary of the most useful English-Spanish cognates. The following near perfect cognates follow the rule for nouns ending ‘ct’ in English can be converted to Spanish by replacing with a ‘cto’. The following near perfect cognates follow the rule for English adjectives ending ‘ous’ can be converted to Spanish by replacing with a ‘oso’. The following near perfect cognates follow the rule for English adjectives ending ‘ic’ can be converted to Spanish by replacing with a ‘ico’. The following near perfect cognates follow the rule for English nouns ending ‘ary’ can be converted to Spanish by replacing with a ‘ario’. The following near perfect cognates follow the rule for nouns ending ‘tion’ in English can be converted to Spanish by replacing with a ‘ción’. Here the near perfect cognates are divided into separate lists based on their behaviour: Here is the list of perfect English-Spanish cognates that I have selected for their practicality: Spanish For example one of the most famous Spanish-English false friends is ‘embarazada’ which doesn’t mean ‘embarrassed’ it means ‘pregnant’. There is also a heap of false cognates or false friends, which will be a topic for another post but note here that they are words that are spelt the same or similar but mean completely different things.

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Printable Version: Download this PDF version of the cognates list to use as a study reference. But you will be able to see that there are certain patterns that form with near perfect cognates that allow you to potentially predict when a near cognate is likely to exist if, of course, you don’t have this list handy. I have defined near perfect cognates as words that have up to 3 letters different. In this article, I have defined perfect cognates as words that are spelt exactly the same in Spanish and English except for maybe an accent over one letter and they mean the same thing in both languages.

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Obviously, they aren’t pronounced the same as in English but once you have the rules down for Spanish pronunciation you are free to communicate away.

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I suggest you read through the full list once over and then when you have a good feel for the patterns that start to emerge with the cognates, start to put them in a few Spanish sentences to get a feel for how they sound. There are way more English-Spanish cognates than what I have provided in this article but the cognates that I have focused on are the more useful due to their frequency and practicality in both languages. You can explore DIRAE at Check out these other articles about the Spanish Language.In this article, I’m going to provide a list of perfect cognates and near-perfect cognates for Spanish and English. I strongly suggest you bookmark this page! With a simple click on any of the Spanish speaking countries, you will get the words and definitions that the RAE have gathered in their Dictionary. I simply love DIRAE and this is why: If you keep exploring and digging in the website, you will find stuff like this Mapa de acepciones or a map of Spanish words with particular definitions in each country.

You will get results that go from similar words ( zapatismo) to types of shoes ( cutara). For example, if you would like to find words that are related to zapato (shoe) you go to DIRAE.es, enter that term, and get a list of words that have zapato in their definition. When you visit the DIRAE.es home page it looks pretty simple… The main feature of DIRAE is that instead of finding the definition of a word, as in an ordinary dictionary, it searches within the DRAE (Diccionario de la Real Academia Española) definitions and gives you the word. DIRAE stands for Diccionario Inverso de la Real Academia Española or The Reverse Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy. For those of you that don’t know DIRAE, I have to tell you that it is an awesome Spanish reference tool.

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