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{{short description|Latin letter E with grave accent}}

{{distinguish|É}}
{{Wiktionary|é}}
{{Infobox grapheme
|name=E with grave
|letter=È è
|image=Latin letter E with grave.svg
|imageclass=skin-invert-image
|imagesize=200px
|imagealt=Upper and lower case of É
|script=[[Latin script]]|language=[[French language|French]]
|phonemes=[{{IPAlink|ɛ}}]
|unicode=U+00C8,&nbsp;U+00E8
}}
'''È''', '''è''' ([[e]]-[[Grave accent|grave]]) is a letter of the [[Latin alphabet]].<ref name="compart">{{cite web|url= https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00C8|title=Unicode Character “È” (U+00C8)|work=Compart |publisher=Compart AG | place= Oak Brook, IL|date=2021 |accessdate=2024-02-17}}</ref>  In [[English language|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 {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|l|ɛ|s|ɪ|d}} {{respell|BLESS|id}}, as opposed to {{IPAc-en|b|l|ɛ|s|t}} {{respell|BLEST}} for the word ''blessed''. It also occurs in [[loanword]]s such as Italian ''[[caffè]]''.

== In other languages ==
* In [[Emilian dialect|Emilian]], è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. ''lèt'' [lɛːt] "bed". 
* In [[French language|French]], it always represents a {{IPAblink|ɛ}} sound of letter ''e'' when this is at the end of a syllable.
*''È'' (è) is used in [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] dictionaries to represent {{IPAslink|ɛ}} which differs from plain ''e'' ({{IPAslink|ə}}) and ''é'' ({{IPAslink|e}}). The same applies to [[Javanese language|Javanese]] and [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]].
* ''È'' means "is" in modern [[Italian language|Italian]] {{IPA|it|ɛ|}}, 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 {{IPA|[ɛ]}} at the end of a word only, as in ''[[caffè]]''.
*''È'' (è) is used in Limburgish for the {{IPA|li|ɛ|}} sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
*''È'' in [[Norwegian language|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 (Cyrillic)|ye]] with grave (''Ѐ'', ''ѐ'').
* In [[Romagnol dialect|Romagnol]], it represents [ɛ], e.g. ''vècc''' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
* ''È'' (''è'') is used to mark the long vowel sounds {{IPA|gd|ɛː|}} and {{IPA|gd|eː|}} 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 {{IPAblink|ɤ}} with a [[tonal (linguistics)|falling tone]] in [[pinyin]], a [[Standard Chinese]] romanization system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the [[Hubei]] [[Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China|province]], [[China]].

== Unicode ==
* {{unichar | 00C8 }}
* {{unichar | 00E8 }}

==See also==
*[[Ye with grave]], a Cyrillic letter with a similar glyph.

==References==
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