Lesson 4: Similar Words - words ending 'ion'

Question 1

what is the -ion rule ?

Answer 1

If you have a word in English which ends ‘ion’ you’ll find the Spanish version is very similar or even the same.

Question 2

Opinión
Opinion

Pasión
Passion

what does the accent tell us?

Answer 2

accent on the last ‘o’. That’s telling us to move the stress from the penultimate syllable to the letter with the accent on it.

This is a general rule throughough Spanish so whereever so see any kind of accent over a letter you know that is the syllable to be stressed.

Spanish language doesn’t really do double letters so in ‘Passion’ we drop one ‘s’ and pronounce the remaining one as ‘s’,

Question 3

what is the -‘T’ion rule ?

give an example

Answer 3

Most English words ending ‘tion’ can be transferred into spanish simply by changing the ‘t’ to a ‘c’ and adding an accent to the last ‘o’.

Organización
Organization

Preparación
Preparation

Generación
Generaction

Confirmación
Confirmation

Question 4

Confirmación
Confirmation

what does con and firma mean?

Answer 4

In Spanish ‘Con’ means ‘With’ and ‘Firma’ means ‘Signature’ and this is the root of the English word ‘Confirm’. When you say “I confirm I will do it” you are partly speaking the latin and meaning “I, with signature, will do it”

So there are two more words in Spanish you won’t forget - ‘con’ and ‘firma’!

Question 5

the word ‘Conversation ‘

split it and check it’s meaning

Answer 5

• ‘con’, ‘vers’,
  “with verse”.

Question 6

the word ‘Confrontation ‘

split it and check it’s meaning

Answer 6

Confrontation - ‘con’, ‘fronta’, “with” and the Spanish word for forehead is “frente” which has been changed slightly to “fronta” in English.

Question 7

what can you get with words that end in ‘ation’

Answer 7

get verbs

Question 8

you can get verbs with which ending words

Answer 8

from words that end ‘ation’

Question 9

for english words ending ending ‘ation’ , how to get the verb

Answer 9

For English verbs ending ‘ation’ we take off the ‘tion’ and add an ‘r’

Preparación
Preparation

Preparar
To prepare

We took the ‘tion’ off ‘Preparation’, added an ‘r’ and got ‘preparar’, the Spanish verb for ‘to prepare’.

Question 10

for english words ending ending ‘ation’ , give examples of words into verbs

Answer 10

Preparación
Preparation

Preparar
To prepare

Generación
Generaction
Generar
To generate
Confirmación
Confirmation
Confirmar
To confirm
Complicación
Complication
Complicar
To complicate
Cooperación
Cooperacion
Cooperar
To cooperate
Cancelación
Cancelation
Cancelar
To cancel
Exploración
Exploration
Explorar
To explore

Question 11

what does quero mean

Answer 11

Quiero’ in Spanish means “I want”.

It can also be used as a soft ‘love’. “Te quiero” means “I love you” in the way you might say it to close friends but if you watch any Spanish soap operas you will hear it there as in “I want you because I love you”.

Question 12

say these in spanish

I want to prepare

I want to cooperate

I want to cancel

I don’t want to cancel

I want to explore

Answer 12

Quiero preparar
I want to prepare

Quiero cooperar
I want to cooperate

Quiero cancelar
I want to cancel

No quiero cancelar
I don’t want to cancel

Quiero explorar
I want to explore

Question 13

While in English we might say I want to prepare myself in Spanish we say:?

Answer 13

“I want to prepare me”.

Quiero prepararme
I want to prepare myself

Question 14

• In English we are far more likely to say “I want to get ready” and latin words like ‘prepare myself’
• ‘find’ in english vs ‘encounter’. in Spanish

why is this?

Answer 14

‘find’ and ‘encounter’. Generally speaking the more every day words like ‘find’ are germanic and the more flowery version is ‘latin’.

However Spanish is street latin so these formal sounding words (in English are actually every day words in Spanish.