Spanish · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "así que" in Spanish?

Q: How do you pronounce así que in Spanish?

así que is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /aˈsi ke/. It means “so / therefore.” ah-SEE keh — accent on the SEE, and the u in "que" is silent.

ah-SEE keh — accent on the SEE, and the u in "que" is silent.

así que /aˈsi ke/

One peak in the phrase, on SÍ, with "que" trailing unstressed behind it. The accent on "así" is a genuine stress mark, moving the beat to the final syllable against the default rule for a vowel-final word. The "que" here is the plain conjunction, so it takes no accent of its own.

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Sound it out

a A wide-open "ah" opening the phrase, unstressed.

sí A hissing s and a tight "ee" carrying the accent and the stress. The s stays a clean hiss between vowels.

que A hard k with the u silent, plus a short "eh". Unstressed, so it slips by quickly after the peak on SÍ.

Hear it in a sentence

Llueve, así que me quedo.

It's raining, so I'm staying.

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"Llueve, así que me quedo" uses the phrase to introduce a consequence, exactly where English would say so. The comma before it is standard. "Llueve" opens with the double l as a y sound and packs ue into one glide, and "quedo" has another silent u after its q.

Where English speakers slip

The u in "que" gets pronounced, giving "ah-SEE kweh". It is silent. Beyond that, the confusion is with "así" alone, which means like this rather than so — "hazlo así" and "así que lo hago" use the same two syllables for different jobs. And do not merge the phrase into one word; it is always written as two.