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How do you pronounce "sorprendido" in Spanish?
sor-pren-DEE-thoh, four beats with two single tapped r's and a soft d.
sor-pren-DI-do: four syllables, and the second-to-last carries the beat, which is where the default rule puts it. All four forms keep it. This is an -ido participle rather than an -ado one, but the stress logic is identical — the beat lands on the i or a of the ending, whichever the verb class supplies.
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Todos estaban sorprendidos.
Everyone was surprised.
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"Todos estaban sorprendidos" uses the plural adjective agreeing with "todos", and "estaban" is the imperfect past of estar, stressed es-TA-ban with no accent needed since it ends in n. The sentence has five s sounds across three words, all hissed.
Where English speakers slip
Two r's, and English gives both the bunched treatment, colouring the vowels and producing "sur-PREN-did-oh". Each is a single forward flick. The two d's then need distinguishing: the first is a genuine dental stop, the second a soft brush near a th. And the English "surprised" pulls the stress to the second syllable, when Spanish wants it on the third.