• Two-syllable nouns and adjectives: usually stressed on the first syllable
• Two-syllable verbs: often stressed on the second syllable
• Some words change meaning with stress

In English, every word with more than one syllable has one syllable that is stressed more than the others. Unlike Spanish, English doesn't use written accent marks, so you have to learn the stress pattern for each word.

🔹 En inglés, cada palabra con más de una sílaba tiene una sílaba que se acentúa más que las demás. A diferencia del español, el inglés no usa tildes, así que hay que aprender el patrón de acento de cada palabra.

Here are some general tendencies:

🔹 Estas son algunas tendencias generales:

Two-syllable nouns and adjectives: usually stressed on the first syllable

'table, 'doctor, 'happy, 'water, 'money, 'picture

Two-syllable verbs: often stressed on the second syllable

de'cide, a'gree, be'gin, for'get, pre'tend, a'rrive

Some words change meaning with stress

'record (noun - disco / registro) vs. re'cord (verb - grabar)

'present (noun - regalo) vs. pre'sent (verb - presentar)

'object (noun - objeto) vs. ob'ject (verb - objetar)