À, à ( a- grave) is a letter of the

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languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent. À is also used in Pinyin transliteration. In most languages, it represents the vowel ''a''. This letter is also a letter in Taos to indicate a mid tone. In accounting or invoices, ''à'' abbreviates "at a rate of": "5 apples à $1" (one dollar each). That usage is based upon the French

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''à'' and has evolved into the at sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a surname: Thomas à Kempis, Mary Anne à Beckett.

Usage in various languages

Emilian-Romagnol

À is used in Emilian to represent short stressed e.g. Bolognese dialect ''sacàtt'' aˈkatː"sack".

French

The grave accent is used in the

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to differentiate homophones, e.g. the third person conjugation of ''a'' " e/she/ithas" and ''à'' "at, in, and to".

Portuguese

À is used in Portuguese to represent a contraction of the feminine singular definite article A with the preposition A: : ''Ele foi à praia''. : He went to the beach.

Character mappings

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users can type an "à" by pressing or on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "À" can be typed by pressing . On a Mac, you hold , and then let go and type . Latin letters with diacritics Polish letters with diacritics {{Latin-script-stub