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Punctuation marks. Posted by on Jan 26, 2009 in Spanish Grammar

Today we’re going to learn about “signos de puntuación” (punctuation marks). Let’s see what they’re called in Spanish.

el punto final – period/full stop
el punto y aparte – period/full stop (and new paragraph)
el asterisco – asterisk
la coma – comma
el punto y coma – semicolon
las comillas – quotation marks
las comillas simples – single quotation marks
los corchetes – square brackets
la diéresis – diaeresis
la exclamación – exclamation mark
el guión – hyphen, dash
la interrogación – question mark
las (letras) mayúsculas – upper-case letters
las (letras) minúsculas – lower-case letters
el paréntesis – brackets
el párrafo – paragraph
el punto y coma – semicolon
los dos puntos – colon
los puntos suspensivos – ellipsis
la virgulilla – swung dash above the n in the letter “ñ”
la tile/el acento – accent

See you next time!

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English / Spanish teacher and translator for over 20 years. I have been blogging since 2007 and I am also a professional singer in my spare time.


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