Cognates

Introducción a la Traduccion October 5th, 2011
Assignment of CognatesUniversidad Latina

CognatesThe convertible words between English and Spanish are known as cognates. English and Spanish Cognates are words in bothlanguages that share the same Latin root and which are very similar. It is important to bear in mind that these cognates do not always translate from one language to another precisely. For example:"inferior" in Spanish may be used to refer to a subordinate in the work-place, without carrying any of the derogatory meaning in the English usage. In Spanish, "informal" means unreliable rather thancasual. In spite of these 'false cognates', there are thousands of English words which can be converted into Spanish along with much of their English meaning (especially the literal meaning
TYPES OFCOGNATES
“These are the 4 types of cognate’s words. Words spelled exactly the same, Words spelled similarly, Words that are less similar but with the same root and Words spelled different but with thesame root.”

I. Words spelled exactly the same.Animal, atlas, colonial, decimal, metal, hospital, actor, color, director and horror.

Examples: 1. Hannah´s dog is a beautiful animal. El perrode Hannah es un bello animal. 2. The atlas is an important book to learn about countries.El atlas es un libro importante para aprender acerca de países. 3. Antigua Guatemala house’s have acolonial design.Las casas de Antigua Guatemala tienen un estilo colonial. 4. Hindu counting system was purely decimal.El sistema Hindú para contar era puramente decimal. 5. I'm also a fan of good oldheavy metal.Yo también soy fan del buen y viejo heavy metal. 6. The fever hospital was burned down during the civil war in 1922-23.El hospital de la fiebre fue incendiado durante la guerra civil de...