È Explained

È should not be confused with É.

E with grave
Letter:	È è
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.^[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 rather than . 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 pronounced as /link/ sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
• È (è) is used in Indonesian dictionaries to represent pronounced as /link/ which differs from plain e (pronounced as /link/) and é (pronounced as /link/). The same applies to Javanese and Sundanese.
• È means "is" in modern Italian pronounced as /it/, 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 pronounced as /[ɛ]/ at the end of a word only, as in caffè.
• È (è) is used in Limburgish for the in Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish pronounced as /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 in Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic pronounced as /ɛː/ and in Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic pronounced as /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 pronounced as /link/ 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.

Key strokes

• Microsoft Windows users can type an "è" by pressing or on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing or . Linux users may type an "è" with the Compose key (default is) by pressing in sequence. "È" can be typed by pressing in sequence.

See also

• Ye with grave, a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Unicode Character “È” (U+00C8). Compart . Compart AG . Oak Brook, IL. 2021 . 2024-02-17.