guillotinabamos
The word 'guillotinabamos' is a verb in the imperfect indicative tense. It is divided into six syllables: gui-llo-ti-na-ba-mos. The stress falls on the penultimate syllable. The word is morphologically composed of a lexicalized root 'guillotin-' and the suffixes '-aba-' and '-mos'.
Definitions
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We were guillotining / We used to guillotine.
We were guillotining / We used to guillotine.
“En la revolución, guillotinabamos a los aristócratas.”
“Antes, guillotinabamos a los criminales.”
Stress pattern
Primary stress falls on the penultimate syllable ('na').
Syllables
gui — Open syllable, initial consonant cluster.. llo — Closed syllable, 'll' digraph.. ti — Open syllable.. na — Open syllable.. ba — Open syllable, 'b' as /β/ between vowels.. mos — Closed syllable.
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Vowel-Consonant (VC)
Syllables generally end in vowels.
Consonant-Vowel (CV)
Syllables generally begin with consonants.
Consonant Clusters
Consonant clusters are broken as much as possible, prioritizing vowel-consonant separation.
Digraphs
Digraphs like 'll' are treated as single phonemes for syllabification.
- Pronunciation of 'll' as /ʎ/ or /ʝ/ and 'b' as /β/ varies regionally, but doesn't affect syllabification.
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