Spanish Cognates

What are cognates?

• new vocabulary words

• Spanish words that don't look like English words

• Spanish words that look or sound like English words

• a type of Spanish food

What is a suffix?

• a word ending (-ly,- ity, etc)

• the beginning of a word (pre-, re-, etc)

• an action word

• a description word

Check all of the English suffixes below.

• -ity

• pre-

• -ly

• -tion

• re-

Match the following English suffixes to the Spanish suffixes.

• -ción

• -ous

• -oso/osa

• -tion

• -ico/ica

• -ly

• -mente

• -ical/ic

• -dad

• -ity

Match the following Spanish suffixes and spelling hints to the proper English equivalents.

• -er/-or

• -ido/-ado

• -pose

• esp/est

• -tain

• -poner (as a suffix)

• sp/st

• -ador/adora

• -ed

• -tener (as a suffix)

What is the correct way to say "generally" in Spanish?

• generación

• generadora

• generalidad

• generalmente

What is the correct way to say "generation" in Spanish?

• generación

• generadora

• generalidad

• generalmente

What is the correct way to say "generality" in Spanish?

• generación

• generadora

• generalidad

• generalmente

What is the correct way to say "to maintain" in Spanish?

• mantener

• manponer

• manhacer

• el maintaino

What is the correct way to say "to suppose" in Spanish?

• sostener

• suponer

• el suposo

• sutener