Here’s a guide from Penn State with a quartet of options, all of which required some tinkering with your system settings. Note: Want to add accent marks to letters on a Windows PC? It can be done, but not all that easily. Press and hold the Option key, to highlight the accent modifier keys in yellow. Click the new, boxy Keyboard button in the top-right corner of the screen, select Keyboard Viewer, and boom: an on-screen version of the keyboard will appear. Want an easier way to visualize the keyboard combos for accent marks? Follow the steps directly above to get to the Keyboard preferences, select the Keyboard tab, then check the box next to “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar.Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of the screen, select System Preferences, click Keyboard, select the Input Sources tab, then click the “+” sign to see a list of keyboards that you can install. In Spanish, n and are considered to be two completely separate letters. While a tilde-less n is pronounced like the English letter n, an is pronounced roughly like an English ny.
Words that end in a consonant other than N. The Tilde in Spanish () This accent mark is only ever found above an n. Here are the normal rules with examples of words that follow them as well as words that need accents because they break the rules. The acute accent indicates that the normal rules of word stress are being overridden. Update: …and here’s an even easier way to add accent marks to letters on your Mac.
