È

Template:Distinguish Template:Wiktionary Template:Infobox grapheme È, è (e-grave) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.<ref name="compart">Template:Cite web</ref> In English, è is formed with an addition of a grave accent 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 Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell, as opposed to Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell for the word blessed. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.

In other languages

In Emilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. lèt [lɛːt] "bed".
In French, it always represents a Template:IPAblink sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
È (è) is used in Indonesian dictionaries to represent Template:IPAslink which differs from plain e (Template:IPAslink) and é (Template:IPAslink). The same applies to Javanese and Sundanese.
È means "is" in modern Italian Template:IPA, 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 Template:IPA at the end of a word only, as in caffè.
È (è) is used in Limburgish for the Template:IPA sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
È in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk) 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, it represents [ɛ], e.g. vècc' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
È (è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds Template:IPA and Template:IPA in Scottish Gaelic.
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 Template:IPAblink with a falling tone in pinyin, a Standard Chinese romanization system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the Hubei province, China.