État
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
État m (plural États)
- state, nation
- government
- Alternative letter-case form of état
Usage notes[edit]
- In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.
Further reading[edit]
- “État” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).