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Why are these Spanish words the same as English? I was looking online at different translators and see that the words below are the same as in English. I wanted to make sure that they're supposed to be the same and if there is any reason. :) Thanks -doctor -terrible -hospital -ideal -cruel -popular -musical

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All the words you mention have the same meaning in Spanish, with different pronunciations. If this is a surprise for you, let me tell you that there are hundreds of words that fall within this same group. Another examples: accidental, artificial, carnaval, conceptual, dental, festival, formal, global, habitual, ideal, individual, legal, manual, material,mental, natural, oral, personal, real, rural, sentimental, social, territorial, total, universal, vocal, and many others.
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The English language has many Latin and French influences, it all started with the Anglo Saxon tribes invading Roman territory (present-day England), and the French Norman conquest!
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okay thank you :) I knew there were a lot of words in common but I wasn't sure if these were also included
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You think that is a lot, check French and English. French has even more words in common with English than Spanish does with English. French didn't have the arabic influence that Spanish (and to a lesser extent, Portuguese) received from Arab occupation and the French themselves occupied the UK for about 400 years or so.
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That type of words are called cognates, are written the same way but the pronuntation can be different. You'll find more words like that and in all the languages are words like that. Other people called ''universal words'' because are the same in many parts of the world

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