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{{distinguish|É}}{{Wiktionary|è}}"È" is a letter. - The letter E with a grave accent.
- In English, the letter è is sometimes used in the past tense 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}} rather than {{IPAc-en|b|l|ɛ|s|t}} {{respell|BLEST}}. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.
- In Emilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. lèt [lɛːt] "bed". In Romagnol, it represents [ɛ], e.g. vècc [vɛtʃː] "old men".
- In French, it always represents a {{IPAblink|ɛ}} sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
- 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 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.
- È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).
- 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".
{{charmap | 00C8 | name1 = Latin Capital Letter E with Grave | 00E8 | name2 = Latin Small Letter E with Grave | map1 = EBCDIC family | map1char1 = 74 | map1char2 = 54 | map2 = ISO 8859-1/3/9/14/15/16 | map2char1 = C8 | map2char2 = E8 }} Key strokes - Microsoft Windows user's computer 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}}.
See also- Ye with grave, a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph.
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