"È", "è" is a letter. *The letter E with a

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English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

, the letter ''è'' is sometimes used in the past tense or past participle forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example, ''blessèd'' would indicate the pronunciation rather than . It also occurs in

loanword A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language. This is in contrast to cognates, which are words in two or more languages that are similar because th ...

s such as Italian ''

caffè Italians are well known for their special attention to the preparation, the selection of the blends, and the use of accessories when creating many types of coffees. Many of the types of coffee preparation known today also have their roots here ...

''. *In Emilian, è is used to represent �ː e.g. ''lèt'' ɛːt"bed". In Romagnol, it represents � e.g. ''vècc ɛtʃː"old men". * In French, it always represents a sound of letter ''e'' when this is at the end of a syllable. * ''È'' means "is" in modern

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

, e.g. ''il cane è piccolo'' meaning "the dog is small". It is derived from Latin ''ĕst'' and is accented to distinguish it from the conjunction ''e'' meaning "and". ''È'' is also used to mark a stressed at the end of a word only, as in ''

''. *''È'' (è) is used in Limburgish for the �sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'. *''È'' in

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

(both

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and

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) is used some words to denote a longer vowel such as in karrière (career). * ''È'' (''è'') is also used for an with a

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pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

, the

Chinese language Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the wor ...

roman-alphabet transcription system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

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of the

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. * ''È'' (''è'') is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (''Ѐ'', ''ѐ''). * ''È'' (''è'') is used to mark the long vowel sounds and in

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

. * ''È'' (''è'') is used in Vietnamese to represent the letter "E" with the dấu huyền tone. It can also combine with "Ê" to form "Ề".

Key strokes

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user's computer can type an "è" by pressing or on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing or .

Key strokes

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