91.2%
Granada deletes the S
In the PRESEEA-Granada recordings of educated locals, a word-final S was deleted 91.2% of the time. We read the study so you know what you will actually hear.
The words are the same. The endings are missing.
70.5 vs 43.3
Granada is not Seville
Across all 3,027 sounds, educated Granada deleted the S 70.5% of the time. Educated Seville deleted it 43.3% of the time and softened it to a breath instead.
Seville softens. Granada deletes.
98%
Before a vowel, nothing
When the next word starts with a vowel, the S was gone 98% of the time. Dos euros sounds like do euro. Los amigos sounds like lo amigo.
There is nothing to listen for. Decide from the article.
77.4%
Inside a word, a breath
Inside a word the S survived as a breathy H 77.4% of the time. Hasta becomes ah-ta. Esto becomes eh-to. This is the one Granada S you can practise.
Keep the breath. Drop the ending.
94.7%
The plural S goes first
An S that marks a plural or a verb ending was deleted 94.7% of the time, more often than an S that means nothing. Meaning does not protect a sound in Granada.
The plural moved into the vowel.
1 IN 5
Even locals half hear it
In a listening test, the opened-vowel plural was reliably identified for one vowel out of five. On E, listeners scored 52.3%. On A, the feminine plural vowel, 17.3%.
Pure guessing scores 25%.
55 OF 224
A quarter of your words are Arabic
We checked 224 everyday Granada words against Wiktionary's Arabic etymology category. 55 came from Arabic. In the Alhambra and the Albaicin it is 21 of 46.
Aceite, azucar, arroz, limon, naranja. Even cafe.
19 OF 21
Al- is a hint, not a law
Of the 21 words on our list beginning with al-, 19 are Arabic, where al- is the article welded onto the noun. Almendra and alameda are the two that are not.
Nine times in ten, the rule holds.
FREE
The tapa is council policy
The Granada city council's tourism site says a free tapa is served with each drink in most places. Three models: a daily sequence, a list you choose from, or a house tapa.
You pay for the drinks only.
98.6%
The palace nearly sold out
The Alhambra took 2,726,871 visitors in 2025 against an annual ceiling of 2,765,500. Your Nasrid Palaces entry time is printed on the ticket and is not flexible.
Book the palace. Then let the bar feed you.
LAS
Listen one word to the left
The plural lives in the article. La against las, el against los. Drill the pairs with the noun ending ignored, because 94.7% of the time it is not there.
Tap through for every table, the word list and the sources.