État
French
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Noun
État m (plural États)
- state, nation
- government
- Alternative letter-case form of état
Usage notes
- 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
- “État”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.