Spanish · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "enojado" in Spanish?

Q: How do you pronounce enojado in Spanish?

enojado is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /e.noˈxa.ðo/. It means “angry.” eh-noh-HAH-thoh, four beats — the j is a throaty h and the d is soft.

eh-noh-HAH-thoh, four beats — the j is a throaty h and the d is soft.

enojado /e.noˈxa.ðo/

Four syllables — e-no-JA-do — with the stress on the second-to-last, which is the default placement. All four gendered and plural forms keep it. As an -ado past participle it shares its rhythm with "cansado", "ocupado" and dozens of others, which makes the pattern reusable across the whole family.

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Sound it out

e A short "eh" as in "bed", opening the word unstressed but fully formed.

no A clean n and a pure "oh", also unstressed and also fully rounded.

ja A raspy back-of-the-mouth sound, like the ch in Scottish "loch", plus a wide-open "ah" carrying the stress.

do A soft d between vowels, close to the th of "those", plus a final pure "oh".

Hear it in a sentence

Está enojado con su hermano.

He's angry with his brother.

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"Está enojado con su hermano" uses estar, since anger is a state rather than an identity. Spanish needs "con" after this adjective — angry with. "Hermano" has a silent h, so "su hermano" runs as soo-er-MA-no. And "está enojado" links the á into the e.

Where English speakers slip

An English j and a hardened d between them undo the word, giving "e-no-JAH-do". Both are wrong: throat rasp and a soft brush near a th. The two opening vowels then want reducing into a mumble. Regionally, note that Spain prefers "enfadado" — "enojado" is the Latin American standard, and "enojar" also exists as a verb.