Why does this word not obey the stress rules?

It must be "grín" because the only stressable vowel in the word is in a position that requires an accent (because with n, s, and vowels, the penultimate syllable must be stressed). Similar to "más"

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verbosus
1 year ago

Hello,

you’re throwing something together. Since single-silver words have only one concrete syllable, there is never an accent on the identification of the concrete. The accent just characterizes irregular concretes – but this can only happen in multi-silve words.

When accents are on single words, it’s…

(a) Question words (all question words bear an accent as grammatical marks, also multi-silver, which are regularly stressed, such as ¿cómo? ¿cuándo? ) or …

b) words that bear the accent to make them of other identical single words with different meaning or to be able to distinguish function. For example, “mas” means “but” without accent. Other examples: té = tea <-> te = you, you ; tú = du <-> tu = your, your ; él = he (Pers.Pron) <-> el = “der” (Article) ; sí = yes, but <-> si = if:

LG

bailandoxaqui
1 year ago
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It also depends on whether it is a stressed or unintentional word. With two identical words that do not need a graphical accent, but have a different function, the emphasized word type receives the prosodic accent, cf. se (unconcrete pronoun) vs. sé (Verb, always emphasized).

bailandoxaqui
1 year ago

Not prosodic, but diacritical accent I wanted to say.