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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "aburrido" in Spanish?
ah-boo-RREE-thoh — the double r is a full rolled trill.
Four syllables — a-bu-RRI-do — with the stress on the second-to-last, the placement the default rule gives. The rr counts as one consonant for syllable division, so the split falls before it. The verb "aburrir" moves the beat to the end because of its r ending, and keeps the trill in the same place.
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La película es aburrida y estoy aburrido.
The movie is boring and I am bored.
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"La película es aburrida y estoy aburrido" is built to show the ser-estar split in one line: with ser, the film is boring; with estar, the speaker is bored. Same adjective, two meanings, decided entirely by the verb. Note the agreement changes too — feminine for the film, masculine for the speaker.
Where English speakers slip
An English r stands in for the trill, and the whole middle of the word flattens. A doubled tap is a better stopgap. But the error that actually causes confusion is grammatical: "soy aburrido" means I am a boring person, not I am bored. The example sentence exists precisely to drill that distinction, and it is worth memorising as a unit.