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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la tienda" in Spanish?
lah TYEN-dah, two beats in the noun — the ie glides into one sound.
Two syllables: TIEN-da, stressed on the first because the ie counts as one diphthong and the word ends in a vowel. The plural "tiendas" keeps it. Do not confuse it with "tienda" from "tender" — the noun and that verb form happen to coincide, and only context separates them.
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La tienda cierra a las nueve.
The store closes at nine.
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"La tienda cierra a las nueve" uses "cierra" with a stem change from "cerrar", so the e splits into ie and the double r stays trilled: SYEH-rra. "Nueve" glides its ue into one beat with a soft b for the v. Two diphthongs and a trill in one short sentence.
Where English speakers slip
The ie gets split into "tee-EN-da", when it should be one glide. The t then wants an English puff, and the final a wants reducing. Regionally, "almacén" and "negocio" also mean shop in various countries, and in Mexico a small corner shop is often a "tiendita" — the diminutive, stressed on DI.