État
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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.
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Further reading[edit]
- “État” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).