grave accent

English

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Noun

grave accent (plural grave accents)

1. (countable) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.

Derived terms

• double grave accent

Related terms

• acute accent

Translations

diacritic mark (ˋ)

• Arabic: نَبْرَة خَفِيضَة f (nabra ḵafīḍa)
• Bulgarian: гравис m (gravis)
• Catalan: accent greu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重音符 (zhòngyīnfú)

• Czech: gravis (cs) m, obrácená čárka f
• Dutch: accent grave (nl) n
• Esperanto: maldekstra korno
• Estonian: graavis
• Finnish: gravis (fi), gravisaksentti, graavi (fi)
• French: accent grave (fr) m
• German: Gravis (de) m
• Greek: βαρεία (el) (vareía)

  Ancient Greek: βαρεῖα f (bareîa)

• Hungarian: tompa ékezet
• Icelandic: öfugur broddur m, bakbroddur m
• Irish: graif f
• Italian: accento grave m
• Japanese: グレイヴ・アクセント (gureivu-akusento)
• Korean: 억음 부호 (eogeum buho)
• Latin: accentus gravis m
• Macedonian: на́дреден зна́к m (nádreden znák)
• Māori: tohurea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: accent grave m, gravis (no) m, gravistegn n

• Polish: gravis (pl) m
• Portuguese: acento grave (pt) m
• Romanian: accent grav (ro) n
• Russian: гра́вис (ru) m (grávis), тупо́е ударе́ние n (tupóje udarénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: краткоузлазни нагласак m (for Serbo-Croatian accents)

  Latin: kratkouzlazni naglasak m (for Serbo-Croatian accents)

• Spanish: acento grave m, grave (es)
• Sranan Tongo: kruktumarki
• Swedish: grav accent (sv) c
• Tagalog: paiwa
• Turkish: peslik vurgusu
• Ukrainian: гра́віс m (hrávis), тупи́й на́голос m (tupýj náholos)
• Vietnamese: dấu huyền (vi)
• Welsh: acen ddisgynedig f
• Wolof: maaska tijji (wo)

See also

• backtick
• backquote

Anagrams

• accent grave