With a little culture and education it is easy to write correctly, however, it is possible that we get confused when writing a word and for a moment we do not know the correct way to write it.
Having a good spelling is essential when writing texts, especially if they are official or very important and can represent our cultural level. Making spelling mistakes can cause us to have a hard time and also makes understanding between interlocutors more difficult.
In this case we are going to see the doubts that arise when we want to write around, how do you write around or around? Do you also have doubts? Well, they will be clarified below.
Around
If we look around in the dictionary we can see that in some cases it does not appear, and that is that around is falling into disuse and also the orthographic functions of word processors recognize around as valid and not around, so it can cause us Lots of doubts.
According to the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, when looking around it leads us to search for its meaning around it, so that around cannot be considered to be written in an erroneous way. The fact that its use is not so widespread does not mean that this way of writing the word cannot be used, but it is the RAE itself that does not recommend its use.
Around
On the other hand, in the dictionary we will find everything written around it together. It is an adverbial phrase made up of the contraction al (union of “a” and “el”) and the word around written all together. This is the most widespread way of writing and expressing around.
Following in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language we find their meanings:
- Situation of surrounding a thing or person. around something
- About
- Little more or less (around)
- Shortly before or after (around)
- Surrounding
In the event that it is used as a noun, it will always be written around and never around.
- Refers to a contour. (that something or someone is surrounded by something or someone).
Examples:
At the camp the children sit around the fire every night.
The surrounding hotels have lower prices than those in the city.
See you at the museum around nine in the morning.
The arrangement will cost you around 400 euros.
He looked around so he could tell where he was.
Synonyms
The word around also has some synonyms that you can use by substituting this word in your texts to avoid it being repeated too much and also without affecting the message and its meaning, since these synonymous words mean the same thing.
The synonyms and pseudo-synonyms of the word around are:
- About
- About
- Around
- Nearly
- Rolling
- Practically
- What
- With proximity
- Almost
- Periphery
- Extramural
- Neighborhood
- Suburbs
- Suburbs
Antonyms
Other words related to around that you might be interested in are their antonyms, that is, words that mean the exact opposite of around, and substituting around for them will change the meaning of the message to the complete opposite. In this case around does not appear in the antonyms dictionary, but looking at its synonyms and pseudo-synonyms we can find some words that we could use as antonyms.
The antonyms of the word around are:
- Remoteness
- Center
How to write around in other languages:
If you’re curious, here’s how to say around in other languages:
- In English: around
- In German: um
- In French: autour de
- In Italian: around
With this brief explanation, surely it has become clear to you how to write around or around, so you no longer have an excuse and use the correct word, which was it? Exactly! You can use both expressions, but remember that it is falling out of use around and the RAE does not recommend using it. And in the event that it is used as a noun, the expression cannot be used using the two words around it.