Today I wanted to share with you a quick infographic that explains a common set of cognates in English and Spanish. Remember that not all cognate rules apply 100% of the time. Because of this, I recommend using your knowledge of cognates to decipher what a word means, but not necessarily to make a word up on your own (because it's easy to ''invent'' new words by accident this way).
Many words in English and Spanish share a common base, or root. The beginnings and endings (prefixes and suffixes) can give us more information about what the word means, and the prefixes and suffixes in English and Spanish can be very different sometimes. So for my first post of a series of cognate-related posts, let's look at words that end in ITY(English) and how they relate to words that end in DAD (Spanish)!
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