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How do you pronounce "nadie" in Spanish?
NAH-thyeh, two beats — the d is soft and the ie glides into a single sound.
Two syllables, NA-die, beat on the first because the ie counts as a single diphthong and the word ends in a vowel. It never changes form for gender or number — "nadie" is always singular, which is why the verb after it stays singular too, even when the meaning feels plural.
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No hay nadie en casa.
There's nobody home.
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"No hay nadie en casa" is a double negative and Spanish requires both halves: "no" before the verb and "nadie" after it. Drop the "no" and the sentence breaks. "Hay" has a silent h and glides like English "eye", and "nadie en" links the final e straight into the following vowel.
Where English speakers slip
The ie gets stretched into two syllables, giving "NAH-dee-eh", when it should be one glide. The d then gets hardened when it belongs between vowels and should nearly be a th. Grammatically, learners drop the "no" because a double negative feels wrong in English — in Spanish it is compulsory when "nadie" follows the verb.