è

Character	è
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
Latin-1 Supplement	U+00E8

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

Letter

è lower case (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.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  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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French

Etymology

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

Phrase

è

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

See also

• a
• yé

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

è

1. (third-person singular present tense of essere) (he, she, it) 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 written as E', especially in print.

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Romanization

è (Zhuyin ㄜˋ)

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

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

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Neapolitan

Verb

è

1. Third-person singular present indicative of èssere

Alternative forms

• èje
• ène (rare)