Cognates Grammar essential # 1

Cognates Cognates are VERY important! Cognates are VERY important! A cognate is when a Spanish word looks like an English word.

Cognate For example, the number cero looks similar to the English word, zero.

Cognate Words that look like one another and that have the same meaning in two languages are called cognates.

Examples Person  persona Televisión  television Vocabulary  vocabulario

False cognates There are what are called false cognates because what it seems should match doesn’t. Example: Asistir does not mean to assist – it is to attend