Aigüe is the feminine form of aigu ( sharp, shrill). Likewise, a dieresis can avoid confusion. Otherwise you might pronounce the two vowels as a single sound. The English equivalent has often kept the missing s: pâte ( paste), forêt ( forest), île ( isle), côte ( coast), août ( August), coût ( cost).Ī circumflex is also used with û to differentiate short words:ĭieresis Two dots (called Umlaut in German) over a vowel tell you to pronounce it separately from the vowel next to it: Noël ( Christmas), Citroën, Gaëlle (a girl’s name). It tells you to give the c a soft sound when it would normally be pronounced because it is followed by a, o or u which are ‘hardening’ vowels: français, garçon, reçuĬircumflex The ‘hat’ or circumflex over a vowel generally indicates a letter has disappeared over time (usually s).
E with an accent mark french plus#
Many masculine adjectives ending in e plus a consonant gain a grave accent in the feminine form:Ĭedilla The hook beneath the letter ç is known as a cedilla. ce, -ge, -me, -re, -te): piè ce ( room), siè ge ( seat), crè me( creme), pè re ( father), diabè te ( diabetic). It’s found in words that end in a consonant and silent e (e.g. A grave accent on e tells you to pronounce it as in père. One instance is in dès, as in the phrase dès que possible ( as soon as possible), where it is spelt with an accent so as not to confuse it with des ( some).
It is rarely used with the letter e for distinguishing purposes.
E with an accent mark french how to#
It does not tell you how to pronounce the letters. It is used on à and ù to differentiate words with the same spelling but different meanings. The accent aigu gives the sound of ‘ay’ to the letter ‘e’ over which it appears. It appears in such words as tudiant, mnace and couter. This accent mark is only used over the vowel ‘ e ’. The accent aigu points up and to the right. It is used to transliterate Chinese, Persian, and Ukrainian. Grave The grave accent slopes down from the left. Here are the five French accent marks: Accent aigu (acute accent) . Ê, ê ( e - circumflex) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, found in Afrikaans, French, Friulian, Kurdish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
It means a more closed kind of e (as in your tongue is closer to the roof of your mouth), more like may than met: été, bébé, thé. Unlike English, French uses accents to give information on pronunciation and differentiate confusable words.Īcute The acute accent is used only on é.
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