È, è ( e-

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) is a letter of the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

. In English, ''è'' is formed with an addition of a

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onto the letter E and 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 , as opposed to for the word ''blessed''. It also occurs in

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s such as Italian ''

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''.

In other languages

* In Emilian, è is used to represent �ː e.g. ''lèt'' ɛːt"bed". * In French, it always represents a sound of letter ''e'' when this is at the end of a syllable. *''È'' (è) is used in Indonesian dictionaries to represent which differs from plain ''e'' () and ''é'' (). The same applies to Javanese and Sundanese. * ''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, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

, 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 (both

Bokmål Bokmål () (, ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. There is no cou ...

and

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) is used in some words to denote a longer vowel such as in ''karrière'' (career). * ''È'' (''è'') is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (''Ѐ'', ''ѐ''). * In

Romagnol Romagnol ( or ; ) is a Romance language spoken in the historical region of Romagna, consisting mainly of the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The name is derived from the Lombard name for the region, ''Romagna''. Romagnol is classifi ...

, it represents � e.g. ''vècc ɛtʃː"old men". * ''È'' (''è'') is used to mark the long vowel sounds and in

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

. * ''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". * ''È'' (''è'') is also used for an with a falling tone in

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

, the

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

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of the

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Unicode

Key strokes

Microsoft Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

users can type an "è" by pressing or on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing or . Linux users may type an "è" with the Compose key (default is ) by pressing in sequence. "È" can be typed by pressing in sequence.

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In other languages

Unicode

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