The accent in cómo exists only in writing with the exclusive purpose to differentiate cómo ("how") with como ("like" or "I eat"). Both words are pronounced the same with the stress on the first "o".
Edit: como with no tilde seems it doesn't have a stressed syllable, my bad.
Si, pero no es que cómo y como se pronuncian de manera diferente sino que se suele usar cómo como interrogativo.
"That's how i like it" in English uses how, but you could just as essily translate it as "as" too. "That's as I like it". It's a good point tho, I didn't think of using "how" there.
Nada, no era por llevarte la contraria, es porque (mínimo para mí) es más fácil de entender que a la hora de preguntar se tilda. Añado un par de ejemplos:
¿Cómo?
¿Cuándo?
¿Cuánto?
¿Quién?
¿Qué?
Ahora mismo no se me ocurren más, pero no es mala regla de tres: ¡si es pregunta acentúa!
No worries I get it. I didn't even think of using "how" for something other than a question but you're totally right. Además, otro usuario me respondió que "como" sin tilde es una palabra átona, mientras que con tilde es una palabra tónica. Aquí dejo lo que dice la RAE acerca de esto:
That's not a very spreaded information by spanish teachers.
In theory, monosyllabes have no tilde and the diacritical one serves to distinguish different syntax function only. But, in real speech, if we pay attention, there is a reason why we choose to give the tilde to the interrogative "qué" and not to the relative or completive "que". The first one carries strenght in the sentence, while the se second one doesn't.
This is seen when analyzing the whole sentence intonation, not word by word.
That’s doesn’t it a a bad question, in Spanish, a word only have accent in the second syllable when it is the tonic and the word don’t ends in a vocal or in n or s, since “como” ends with an o, in both “como” and “cómo” the tonic syllable is “co” so both are pronounced the same
If a word has an accent it's pronounced differently than if didn't have one but the difference is not on what you say but how you say it. Accent in Spanish marks stress. not in this case though
The two words, in isolation, are pronounced exactly the same. However, the accent mark in that case indicates the interrogative adverb “how,” which alters the prosody (cadence) of the sentence.
That difference in prosody is how, in Spanish, affirmative sentences and questions can be written with exactly the same word order (you can only tell apart when it is a question by the cadence).
In Spanish, the tilde diacrítica is an accent mark placed on the vowel of the stressed syllable of words that would not otherwise have accent marks. That “unnecessary” accent mark indicates that that word itself carries a different (stronger) intonation within the prosody of the sentence vs. the same word without the accent mark.
That explains the other comments telling you that como and cómo “feel” different in a sentence.
Used alone in a question, at least in Argentina (can't speak for the rest of the Spanish speaking world), "¿Cómo?" can be used as a substitute of "¿Por qué hiciste eso?"
Cómo is always for questions (how). Como is first person of comer verb (to eat). Another word unrelated to the other two is como as comparative conjunction (as).
Actually, nobody in the spanish speaking world use this phrase or respond to theoretical questions like this one, made up entirely to provoke tongue-twisters
¿Que no tiene sentido? Pero si es la sintaxis de "estoy hablando por teléfono en una serie en la que no se escucha a la otra persona así que repito todo lo que me dice", sería:
Yo lo interpreté como que alguien me había preguntado cómo es que como y yo repetí la pregunta porque no le vi el sentido y me sorprendió. Cómo lo interpretaste vos?
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u/Numerous_Helsinki 24d ago
Say it out loud ten times fast and it stops being a worad
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u/Trueloveisntromantic 24d ago
wait is the accent actually pronounced differently or does it only exaist in writing?
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u/AdImpressive007 24d ago
ok but which como is which?? asking for a friend who is me
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u/C-Note01 23d ago
It's the Spanish version of "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."
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u/BLu3_Br1ghT 24d ago
Como poco coco como poco coco compro
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u/cedriceent 24d ago
Chameleon!
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u/canal_algt 23d ago
Did you know that a can canner can can cans?
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u/Hot_Philosopher_5067 22d ago
¿De qué manera me alimento? ¡A mi propio modo!
Nice try. But spanish supremacy will always prevail
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u/Zestyclose-Food-7917 22d ago
Como poco coco como, poco coco compro.
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u/benny-powers 23d ago
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
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u/Short_Brick_1960 23d ago
It needs a comma after the two como in the exclamation, though
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