Since there are about 20,000 Spanish-English cognates, it would be silly to try to memorize them all.

What are cognates 3 examples?

Examples of Cognates

nourish: nutrir (Spanish), noris (Old French); root: nutritivus (Medieval Latin) atheist: ateo/a (Spanish), athéiste (French), atheos (Latin); root: átheos (Greek) controversy: controversia (Spanish); root: controversus (Latin) comic (meaning comedian): cómico (Spanish); root: cōmĭcus (Latin)

What are the 3 Spanish cognates?

Some examples are: academic – académico, alcoholic – alcohólico, domestic – doméstico, organic – orgánico, and panic – pánico. There are many more cognates in Spanish, as well as patterns, other than the ones listed above.