È,è (e-grave) is a letter of theLatin alphabet.[1] InEnglish,è is formed with an addition of agrave accent onto the letterE 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/ˈblɛsɪd/BLESS-id, as opposed to/blɛst/BLEST for the wordblessed. It also occurs inloanwords such as Italiancaffè.
InEmilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g.lèt [lɛːt] "bed".
InFrench, it always represents a[ɛ] sound of lettere when this is at the end of a syllable.
È (è) is used inIndonesian dictionaries to represent/ɛ/ which differs from plaine (/ə/) andé (/e/). The same applies toJavanese andSundanese.
È means "is" in modernItalian[ɛ], e.g.il cane è piccolo meaning "the dog is small". It is derived from Latinĕst and is accented to distinguish it from the conjunctione meaning "and".È is also used to mark a stressed[ɛ] at the end of a word only, as incaffè.
È (è) is used in Limburgish for the[ɛ] sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
È inNorwegian (bothBokmål andNynorsk) is used in some words to denote a longer vowel such as inkarrière (career).
È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letterye with grave (Ѐ,ѐ).
InRomagnol, it represents [ɛ], e.g.vècc' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
Microsoft Windows users can type an "è" by pressingAlt+0232 orAlt+138 on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressingAlt+0200 orAlt+212. Linux users may type an "è" with the Compose key (default isRight Alt) by pressingComposeE` in sequence. "È" can be typed by pressingCompose⇧ Shift+E` in sequence.
