Writen Accents in Spanish

If you're wondering which version of a word has the accent, remember that it goes on the word with more importance. "Si" can mean "yes" or it can mean "if" depending on the written accent. An affirmation is grammatically more important than an conditional so yes would be sí.

Nouns are more important than anything, else and pronouns are more important than possessive words. So the tea that you drink is "té" with the accent, and the reflexive pronoun "te" is without the accent.

Other examples:
él - pronoun for him vs. el - masculine article
sé - I know vs. se - reflexive pronoun
más - more vs. mas - but