The ENT Rule

Some exceptions:

To translate English words that end in:

English words ending with ...tious can be translated to Spanish by substinting the ending with ...cioso. As an example, the English word ambitious is the Spanish word ambicioso.

The English endings ...tious and ...cious both sound the same. They both have an "S" sound. English can be very complicated. Perhaps the real complexity in learning Spanish is understanding how to uncomplicate English!
In Chapter One we learned that double consonants are not used in Spanish, with the exception of the C, LL and the R. Also, we have seen that Spanish does not have tricky letter combinations like KN, or PH!

Here is a reminder of what isn't allowed in Spanish.
In Spanish, we have learned, the "T" always sounds like a "T", which is true for all of the consonants. Each letter sounds like what it is!
Inasmuch as the ...tious in English sounds like an "S", the Spanish translation (...cioso) keeps it that way!

To translate English words that end with

We will susbtitute the ending with
...mento

Some exceptions: