è

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"

è U+00E8, è LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE Composition: e [U+0065] + ◌̀ [U+0300] ← ç [U+00E7] Latin-1 Supplement é → [U+00E9]

Translingual

Letter

è (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.
• In older writings on Old Icelandic or Old (West) Norse (e.g. A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue) è is used instead of the modern é to denote that the phoneme is different in character (a rising diphthong) compared to á, í, ó, ú and ý (falling diphthongs or monophthongs).

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 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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Corsican

Etymology

From Latin et.

Conjunction

è

1. and

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

Phrase

è

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

See also

• a
• yé

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Italian

Alternative forms

• e' (misspelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

è

1. third-person singular present indicative of essere; 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 incorrectly written as E', especially in print.

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Romanization

è (Zhuyin ㄜˋ)

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

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

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Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 呃 (“to belch; to hiccup; to hiccough; etc.”). (This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 呃.)

For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 曳 (“to drag; to pull; to float in the wind; to sway; etc.”). (This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 曳.)

For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 穢 (“dirty; filthy; unclean; immoral; obscene; etc.”). (This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 穢.)

For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 翳 (“shade, screen; to hide, screen”). (This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 翳.)

For pronunciation and definitions of è – see 裔 (“progeny, descendants, posterity”). (This character, è, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 裔.)

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Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• èje
• ène (rare)

Verb

è

1. third-person singular present indicative of èssere; is