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Latin letter E with grave accent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with É.
È, è (e-grave) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.[1] 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 /ˈblɛsɪd/ BLESS-id rather than /blɛst/ BLEST. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.
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Writing system | Latin script |
Language of origin | French |
Phonetic usage | [ɛ] |
Unicode codepoint | U+00C8, U+00E8 |
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This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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