Ti with or without tilde?

The other day I was writing something in Spanish and at some point I couldn’t for the life of me remember whether ti was written with or without a tilde. After some investigation it became (once again) completely clear to me.

It’s a well-known fact that in Spanish (although not exclusively) the meaning of certain words is differentiated through the use of a tilde (which in this case is a diacritical sign, or signo diacrítico in Spanish). E.g. se is a pronoun and is a verb (the first person singular of saber, i.e. to know). The same goes for mi (pronoun) and (possessive determiner).

Well, what happens with mi and also happens with ti and . I.e. es para mí, es para tí.

Another, better, example would be mi casa, mi coche and mi amigo changing to ti casa, ti coche and ti amigo.

As you can see, the tilde is used, at times, in combination with ti to differentiate the meaning of the word.

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