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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la mujer" in Spanish?
lah moo-HEHR — the j is a throaty h and the stress falls on the last syllable.
Two syllables, mu-JER, beat at the end. The word finishes in r, a consonant that is not n or s, so the default rule puts the stress on the final syllable and no accent is needed. The plural "mujeres" now ends in s, and the beat slides back to mu-JE-res — still second-to-last, still unmarked.
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La mujer del sombrero es mi tía.
The woman with the hat is my aunt.
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"La mujer del sombrero es mi tía" uses "del", the compulsory contraction of de plus el. "Sombrero" contains a single tapped r and is stressed on BRE. "Tía" carries an accent to break the i from the a, giving two beats — the same mechanism as "día".
Where English speakers slip
The j is the first thing to fix: read as an English j it gives "moo-JAIR", which is unrecognisable. Pull it to the back of the throat. The u then wants reading as a flat English vowel, and the final r wants the English curl that bends "eh" into "air". Three corrections in a two-syllable word, which is why this one takes practice.