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Hi everyone. I'm here for the first time. My Spanish is little to zero. I'd like to know if I need to put the accents on the words that are all in capital letters. For ex: ANOS (year).años. Thanks.

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Hello! Words that need

Hello!

Words that need "TILDES" must carry them always. For example: "gramática o GRAMÁTICA", "ortografía, ORTOGRAFÍA",...
The case of letter Ñ is specially important. Don't confuse the letter N and the letter Ñ. They are different. If you write AÑO, you write YEAR in English. If you write ANO, you write ANUS in English.

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Vino/se fue

Thank you for the valuable info. I try to translate this poem, I'd appreciate if you give me suggestions.Humans as l'humanity, and elsewhere as somewhere out there.People came and people left La gente vino y gente dejada Elsewhere humans have arrived D'a otra parte los seres humanos han llegado or Vino gente y gente se fue De todas partes llegaron seres humanos..

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Venir / Ir

People came and people left = la gente vino y se fue.

Elsewhere humans have arrived = en otros sitios han llegado personas.

"Venir" and "Ir" are both irregular verbs. You can check out their conjugations here:

Ver conjugación venir.

Ver conjugación ir.