Google Input Tools is an extension for Chrome browser and Chromebooks. You will need to be using Chrome and have the extension installed before use. See the Setting Up Google Input Tools page for instructions on installing the extension and adding keyboards. Method 1: Google Input Tools (Recommended)After you've installed the Google Input Tools, click the icon in the toolbar to switch to a Spanish keyboard. Using the Spanish keyboard ()The spanish keyboard is almost the same as an English keyboard except with a few additional shortcuts:
You can also click the corresponding key on the virtual keyboard that appears. Using the US International keyboard ()While holding down the Ctrl and Alt keys, tap the letter you'd like the Spanish character of, e.g.
Method 2: Numerical ShortcodesOn a Windows KeyboardWhen typing characters on a Windows computer, always use the numeric (extended) keypad on the right of your keyboard and not the row of numbers at the top. (On a laptop without a keypad, turn on 'num lock' and use the function key with the virtual number pad, e.g. Alt+Fn+0225)
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On A Macintosh Keyboard
Option-e +a = á Option-e + e = é Option-n + n = ñ Option-u + u = ü Here's to the freakin weekend. Related Pages
The acute accent ( ´ ) is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.
Uses[edit]History[edit]An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. Pitch[edit]Ancient Greek[edit]The acute accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it indicated a syllable with a high pitch. In Modern Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and is á½Î¾Îµá¿Î± (oxeîa, Modern Greek oxÃa) 'sharp' or 'high', which was calqued (loan-translated) into Latin as acÅ«ta 'sharpened'. Stress[edit]The acute accent marks the stressed vowel of a word in several languages: A With The Accent Mark
Height[edit]The acute accent marks the height of some stressed vowels in various Romance languages.
Length[edit]Long vowels[edit]
Short vowels[edit]
Palatalization[edit]A graphically similar, but not identical, mark is indicative of a palatalized sound in several languages. In Polish, such a mark is known as a kreska (English: stroke) and is an integral part of several letters: four consonants and one vowel. When appearing in consonants, it indicates palatalization, similar to the use of the háÄek in Czech and other Slavic languages (e.g. szeÅÄ[ËÊÉÉtÉ] 'six'). However, in contrast to the háÄek which is usually used for postalveolar consonants, the kreska denotes alveolo-palatal consonants. In traditional Polish typography, the kreska is more nearly vertical than the acute accent, and placed slightly right of center.[4] A similar rule applies to the Belarusian Latin alphabet Åacinka. However, for computer use, Unicode conflates the codepoints for these letters with those of the accented Latin letters of similar appearance. In Serbo-Croatian, as in Polish, the letter Ä is used to represent a palatalized t. In the romanization of Macedonian, ǵ and ḱ represent the Cyrillic letters Ñ and Ñ, which stand for palatal or alveolo-palatal consonants, though gj and kj (or Ä and Ä) are more commonly used for this purpose[citation needed]. The same two letters are used to transcribe the postulated Proto-Indo-Europeanphonemes/ɡʲ/ and /kʲ/. Tone[edit]In the Quá»c Ngữ system for Vietnamese, the Yale romanization for Cantonese and the Pinyinromanization for Mandarin Chinese, the acute accent indicates a rising tone. In Mandarin, the alternative to the acute accent is the number 2 after the syllable: lái = lai2. In Cantonese Yale, the acute accent is either tone 2, or tone 5 if the vowel(s) are followed by 'h' (if the number form is used, 'h' is omitted): má = ma2, máh - ma5. In African languages and Athabaskan languages, it frequently marks a high tone, e.g., Yorubaapá 'arm', Nobiinféntà 'sweet date', Ekotikaláwa 'boat', Navajotâáá 'just'. The acute accent is used in Serbo-Croatian dictionaries and linguistic publications to indicate a high-rising accent. It is not used in everyday writing. Disambiguation[edit]Pirates of the caribbean soundtrack. The acute accent is used to disambiguate certain words which would otherwise be homographs in the following languages:
Emphasis[edit]
Letter extension[edit]
Other uses[edit]
English[edit]As with other diacritical marks, a number of (usually French) loanwords are sometimes spelled in English with an acute accent as used in the original language: these include attaché, blasé, canapé, cliché, communiqué, café, décor, déjà vu, détente, élite, entrée, exposé, mêlée, fiancé, fiancée, papier-mâché, passé, pâté, piqué, plié, repoussé, résumé, risqué, sauté, roué, séance, naïveté, toupée and touché. Retention of the accent is common only in the French ending é or ée, as in these examples, where its absence would tend to suggest a different pronunciation. Thus the French word résumé is commonly seen in English as resumé, with only one accent (but also with both or none). Acute accents are sometimes added to loanwords where a final e is not silent, for example, maté from Spanish mate, the Maldivian capital Malé,saké, and Pokémon from the Japanese compound for pocket monster, the last three from languages which do not use the Roman alphabet, and where transcriptions do not normally use acute accents. For foreign terms used in English that have not been assimilated into English or are not in general English usage, italics are generally used with the appropriate accents: for example, coup d'état, pièce de résistance, crème brûlée and ancien régime. The acute accent is sometimes (though rarely) used for poetic purposes:
The layout of some European PC keyboards, combined with problematic keyboard-driver semantics, causes some users to use an acute accent or a grave accent instead of an apostrophe when typing in English (e.g. typing John`s or John´s instead of John's).[10] Technical notes[edit]
The ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 character encodings include the letters á, é, Ã, ó, ú, ý, and their respective capital forms. Dozens more letters with the acute accent are available in Unicode. Microsoft Windows[edit]On Windows computers, letters with acute accents can be created by holding down the alt key and typing in a three-number code on the number pad to the right of the keyboard before releasing the Alt key. Before the appearance of Spanish keyboards, Spanish speakers had to learn these codes if they wanted to be able to write acute accents, though some preferred using the Microsoft Word spell checker to add the accent for them. Some young computer users got in the habit of not writing accented letters at all.[11] The codes (which come from the IBM PC encoding) are:
On some non-US keyboard layouts (e.g. Hiberno-English), these letters can also be made by holding Ctrl+Alt (or Alt Gr) and the desired letter. Bone thugs n harmony songs. Microsoft Office[edit]To input an accented letter in a Microsoft Office software (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Access, etc.), hold the Ctrl key, press the apostrophe (') key once, release the Ctrl key, and then press the desired letter. Macintosh OS X[edit]On a Macintosh computer, an acute accent is placed on a vowel by pressing ⥠Option+e and then the vowel, which can also be capitalised; for example, á is formed by pressing ⥠Option+e and then a, and à is formed by pressing ⥠Option+e and then ⧠Shift+a. Keyboards[edit]Because keyboards have only a limited number of keys, English keyboards do not have keys for accented characters. The concept of dead key, a key that modified the meaning of the next key press, was developed to overcome this problem. This acute accent key was already present on typewriters where it typed the accent without moving the carriage, so a normal letter could be written on the same place. Internet[edit]Some sites, such as Wikipedia or the Alta Vista automatic translator,[12] allow inserting such symbols by clicking on a link in a box. Limitations[edit]In the Dutch language, emphasis is expressed with an acute accent, and accents should be used on both letters of a compound vowel. However, words with the IJ digraph, such as blijf, mij, zij, and wijten, require an accent on the j when emphasized (blÃjÌf, mÃjÌ, zÃjÌ, wÃjÌten), which is usually not available on digital text entry systems. Therefore the acute accent on the j is omitted most of the time, leaving an accent only on the i (blÃjf, mÃj, zÃj, wÃjten).[13] The j with acute accent does not have a dedicated glyph in Unicode, so a combining character is needed to represent it in digital text. See also[edit]Notes[edit]
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