È
{{short description|Latin letter E with grave accent}}
{{distinguish|É}}
{{Wiktionary|è}}
{{Infobox grapheme
|name=E with grave
|letter=È è
|image=Latin letter E with grave.svg
|imageclass=skin-invert-image
|imagesize=200px
|imagealt=Upper and lower case of È
|script=Latin script|language=French
|phonemes=[{{IPAlink|ɛ}}]
|unicode=U+00C8, U+00E8
}}
È, è (e-grave) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.{{cite web|url= https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00C8|title=Unicode Character “È” (U+00C8)|work=Compart |publisher=Compart AG | place= Oak Brook, IL|date=2021 |accessdate=2024-02-17}} 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 {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|l|ɛ|s|ɪ|d}} {{respell|BLESS|id}}, as opposed to {{IPAc-en|b|l|ɛ|s|t}} {{respell|BLEST}} for the word blessed. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.
In other languages
- In Emilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. lèt [lɛːt] "bed".
- In French, it always represents a {{IPAblink|ɛ}} sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
- È (è) is used in Indonesian dictionaries to represent {{IPAslink|ɛ}} which differs from plain e ({{IPAslink|ə}}) and é ({{IPAslink|e}}). The same applies to Javanese and Sundanese.
- È means "is" in modern Italian {{IPA|it|ɛ|}}, 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 {{IPA|[ɛ]}} at the end of a word only, as in caffè.
- È (è) is used in Limburgish for the {{IPA|li|ɛ|}} sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
- È in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk) is used in some words to denote a longer vowel such as in karrière (career).
- È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).
- In Romagnol, it represents [ɛ], e.g. vècc' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
- È (è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds {{IPA|gd|ɛː|}} and {{IPA|gd|eː|}} in Scottish Gaelic.
- È (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 (è) is also used for an {{IPAblink|ɤ}} with a falling tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China.
Unicode
Key strokes
- Microsoft Windows users can type an "è" by pressing {{key press|Alt|0}}{{key press|2}}{{key press|3}}{{key press|2}} or {{key press|Alt|1}}{{key press|3}}{{key press|8}} on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing {{key press|Alt|0}}{{key press|2}}{{key press|0}}{{key press|0}} or {{key press|Alt|2}}{{key press|1}}{{key press|2}}. Linux users may type an "è" with the Compose key (default is {{key press|Right Alt}}) by pressing {{key press|Compose}}{{key press|E}}{{key press|`}} in sequence. "È" can be typed by pressing {{key press|Compose}}{{key press|Shift|E}}{{key press|`}} in sequence.
See also
- Ye with grave, a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph.
References
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