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* If a polysyllabic word ends in a vowel or the consonants ''s'' or ''n'', the penultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''vej'''a'''rte'', ''morraj'''o'''ten''. | * If a polysyllabic word ends in a vowel or the consonants ''s'' or ''n'', the penultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''vej'''a'''rte'', ''morraj'''o'''ten''. | ||
* If a polysyllabic word ends in any other consonants, the ultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''çid'''e'''j'', ''sarc'''a'''d''. | * If a polysyllabic word ends in any other consonants, the ultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''çid'''e'''j'', ''sarc'''a'''d''. | ||
Stress in words that do not conform to these rules is indicated with an acute accent (e.g. ''harín''). Often these words descend from regular penultimately stressed words that lost a final ''e'' after a sonorant (e.g. ''harín'' from old ''harine'', ''Tevrés'' from old ''Tevresse''), or from loanwords or learned Aeranisms (e.g. ''Fáçar'' from '' | Stress in words that do not conform to these rules is indicated with an acute accent (e.g. ''harín''). Often these words descend from regular penultimately stressed words that lost a final ''e'' after a sonorant (e.g. ''harín'' from old ''harine'', ''Tevrés'' from old ''Tevresse''), or from loanwords or learned Aeranisms (e.g. ''Fáçar'' from ''Faṣr'', ''ápico'' from ''apicor''). Sometimes, stress can have grammatical meaning, such as ''llavo'' ('I laugh') versus ''llavó'' ('I laughed'). | ||
==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||