È
È, è is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, è is formed with an addition of a grave accent onto the letter E and is sometimes used in the past tense or past participle forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example, blessèd would indicate the pronunciation , as opposed to for the word blessed. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.
In other languages
- In Emilian, è is used to represent , e.g. lèt "bed".
- In French, it always represents a sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
- È is used in Indonesian dictionaries to represent which differs from plain e and é. The same applies to Javanese and Sundanese.
- È means "is" in modern Italian, e.g. il cane è piccolo meaning "the dog is small". It is derived from Latin ĕst and is accented to distinguish it from the conjunction e meaning "and". È is also used to mark a stressed at the end of a word only, as in caffè.
- È is used in Limburgish for the sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
- È in Norwegian is used in some words to denote a longer vowel such as in karrière.
- È is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave.
- In Romagnol, it represents , e.g. vècc' "old men".
- È is used to mark the long vowel sounds and in Scottish Gaelic.
- È is used in Vietnamese to represent the letter "E" with the dấu huyền tone. It can also combine with "Ê" to form "Ề".
- È is also used for an with a falling tone in pinyin, a Standard Chinese romanization system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the Hubei Administrative divisions of the [People's Republic of China|province], China.
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