è

Character	è
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
Latin-1 Supplement	U+00E8

See also Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

Letter

è lower case (upper case È)

1. The letter e with a grave accent.

Usage notes

• In French, Italian, Occitan and Catalan the è is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to é which is pronounced /e/.
• In English the è is used only poetically in order to indicate that it is pronounced /ɛ/ as opposed to mute. In other words, it indicates a departure, for poetic purposes, from the usual pronunciation of the so-modified e.
• In Italian it is used to indicate a stressed e, /ɛ/, at the end of a word.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• (Letters using grave accent or double grave accent):  Àà  Ȁȁ  Ằằ  Ầầ  Èè  Ȅȅ  Ềề  Ḕḕ  Ìì  Ȉȉ  Ǹǹ  Òò  Ȍȍ  Ờờ  Ṑṑ  Ồồ  Ȑȑ  Ùù  Ȕȕ  Ǜǜ  Ừừ  Ẁẁ  Ỳỳ

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French

Etymology

From a, a distinctly Quebec contracted form of elle, + est.

Phrase

è

1. (Quebec) she's, it's: contraction of elle est.

See also

• a
• yé

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin est, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ/, X-SAMPA: /E/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb form

è

1. (third-person singular present tense of essere) (he, she, it) is

   Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

   If it is not true, it is a good story.

Usage notes

• The uppercase form (È) is often written as E', especially in print.

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Romanization

è (form of e4 with diacritic)

1. See 偔
2. See 僫
3. See 儍
4. See 卾
5. See 厄
6. See 呃
7. See 呝
8. See 咢
9. See 咹
10. See 哐
11. See 啛
12. See 噩
13. See 圔
14. See 垩
15. See 堊
16. See 堨
17. See 堮
18. See 岋
19. See 峈
20. See 崿
21. See 嶭
22. See 恶
23. 悪
24. See 惡
25. See 愕
26. See 戹
27. See 扼
28. See 搤
29. See 搹
30. See 櫮
31. See 歹
32. See 湂
33. See 琧
34. See 砐
35. See 硆
36. 胺
37. See 腭
38. See 苊
39. See 萼
40. See 蕚
41. See 蘀
42. See 蚅
43. See 蛤
44. See 蝁
45. See 覨
46. See 詻
47. See 誒
48. See 諤
49. See 讍
50. See 谔
51. See 豟
52. See 貖
53. See 軛
54. See 軶
55. See 轭
56. See 遌
57. See 遏
58. See 遻
59. See 邐
60. See 鄂
61. See 鍔
62. See 鑩
63. 锷
64. See 閼
65. See 阏
66. See 阨
67. See 阸
68. See 隘
69. See 頞
70. See 顎
71. See 颚
72. See 餓
73. See 餩
74. See 饿
75. See 鬬
76. See 魥
77. See 鰐
78. See 鱷
79. See 鳄
80. See 鶚
81. See 鹗
82. See 齂
83. See 齶
84. See 㓵

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

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Neapolitan

Verb

è

1. Third-person singular present indicative of èssere

Alternative forms

• èje
• ène (rare)