How to use Cigüeña (stork), pingüino (penguin) …The sounds güe and güi in Spanish

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Cigüeña (stork), pingüino (penguin) …The sounds güe and güi

Generally, when a g- is followed by -ue and -ui, the sounds are gue and gui .

Guerra

War

Águila

Eagle

However, when we put two dots over the u, the sounds are güe and güi .

Bilingüe

Bilingual

Lingüista

Linguist

Note: we only use two dots over the u in these two specific cases.

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