ä

Character	ä
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
Unicode block	Latin-1 Supplement
Codepoint	U+00E4

See also: ӓ and Appendix:Variations of "a"

§Translingual

§Letter

ä lower case (upper case Ä)

1. The letter a with a diaresis.

§See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter A):   Áá  Àà  Ââ  Ǎǎ  Ăă  Ãã  Ảả  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ää  Åå  Ḁḁ  Āā  Ąą  ᶏ  Ⱥⱥ  Ȁȁ  Ấấ  Ầầ  Ẫẫ  Ẩẩ  Ậậ  Ắắ  Ằằ  Ẵẵ  Ẳẳ  Ặặ  Ǻǻ  Ǡǡ  Ǟǟ  Ȁȁ  Ȃȃ  Ɑɑ  ᴀ  Ɐɐ  ɒ  Ａａ Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜳꜳ  Ꜵꜵ  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ
• (Letters using umlaut or diaresis sign):  Ää  Ǟǟ  Ëë  Ḧḧ  Ïï  Ḯḯ  N̈n̈  Öö  Ȫȫ  Ṏṏ  ẗ  Üü  Ǘǘ  Ǚǚ  Ǜǜ  Ǖǖ  Ṻṻ  Ṳṳ  Ẅẅ  Ẍẍ  Ÿÿ

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§Arin

§Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaʒ (“I”). Compare Kott ai (“I”) and Pumpokol ad (“I”). Also see Assan aj.

§Pronoun

ä

1. I (first-person singular subjective)

§Synonyms

• aj

§Related terms

• aiŋ

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§Estonian

§Letter

ä (lowercase, uppercase Ä)

1. The 28th letter of the Estonian alphabet

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§Finnish

§Pronunciation

• Audio

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§Letter

ä (lowercase, uppercase Ä)

1. The second to last letter of the Finnish alphabet.

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§Livonian

§Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /æ/

§Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

1. The third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

§See also

• (Latin script letters) kēratēḑ; Aa, Āā, Ää, Ǟǟ, Bb, Dd, Ḑḑ, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Ōō, Ȯȯ, Ȱȱ, Õõ, Ȭȭ, Pp, Rr, Ŗŗ, Ss, Šš, Tt, Țț, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž,

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§Skolt Sami

§Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /a/

§Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

§See also

• (Latin script letters) bukva; Aa, Ââ, Bb, Cc, Čč, Ʒʒ, Ǯǯ, Dd, Đđ, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ǧǧ, Ǥǥ, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ǩǩ, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ŋŋ, Oo, Õõ, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Vv, Zz, Žž, Åå, Ää, ˊ

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§Slovak

§Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /æ/

§Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

1. The third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

§See also

• (Latin script letters) písmeno; Aa, Áá, Ää, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ďď, Dzdz, Dždž, Ee, Éé, Ff, Gg, Hh, Chch, Ii, Íí, Jj, Kk, Ll, Ĺĺ, Ľľ, Mm, Nn, Ňň, Oo, Óó, Ôô, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ŕŕ, Ss, Šš, Tt, Ťť, Uu, Úú, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Ýý, Zz, Žž

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§Swedish

§Pronunciation

Letter name

• IPA^(key): /ɛː/

Phoneme

• IPA^(key): /ɛː/, /ɛ/

§Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

1. The second last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronunced /ɛː/ when long, /ɛ/ when short, /æː/ when long and before r, and /æ/ when short and before r.

§Declension

Declension of ä

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ä	ät	än	äna
genitive	äs	äts	äns	änas

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§Turkmen

§Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /æ/, /æː/

§Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

1. The sixth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ä and written in the Latin script.

§See also

• (Latin script letters) harp; Aa, Bb, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ää, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Žž, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ňň, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Ww, Yy, Ýý, Zz,

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§Volapük

§Prefix

ä

1. Verbal prefix for the imperfect tense.