By knowing a few simple cognate rules, students can learn Spanish and English fast by quickly expand their Spanish vocabulary or English Vocabulary. SpanishCognates.org organizes the list of cognates in alphabetical order (A-Z listing), classroom subjects and by the ending rule of the cognates.

By knowing a few simple cognate rules, students can learn Spanish and English fast by quickly expand their Spanish vocabulary or English Vocabulary. SpanishCognates.org organizes the list of cognates in alphabetical order (A-Z listing), classroom subjects and by the ending rule of the cognates.

4. Cognates ending in -oso. Spanish words that end in -oso get changed to “-ous” in English. For example, delicioso is “delicious” in English.

Spanish words that end in -oso tend to be adjectives. In English we can often change a noun into its corresponding adjective by adding -ous e.g advantage/advantageous, harmony/harmonious, space/spacious. You can often also do this in Spanish with -oso e.g peligro (danger)/peligroso (dangerous), lujo (luxury)/lujoso (luxurious).

The following near perfect cognates follow the rule for English adjectives ending ‘ous’ can be converted to Spanish by replacing with a ‘oso’. Spanish English