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À,à (a-grave) is a letter of theCatalan,Emilian-Romagnol,French,Italian,Maltese,Occitan,Portuguese,Sardinian,Scottish Gaelic,[1]Vietnamese, andWelsh languages consisting of the letterA of theISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent. À is also used inPinyin transliteration. In most languages, it represents the vowela. This letter is also a letter inTaos to indicate a mid tone.
In accounting or invoices,à abbreviates "at a rate of": "5 apples à $1" (one dollar each). That usage is based upon the Frenchprepositionà and has evolved into theat sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a surname:Thomas à Kempis,Mary Anne à Beckett.
À is used inEmilian to represent short stressed [a], e.g. Bolognese dialectsacàtt [saˈkatː] "sack".
The grave accent is used in theFrench language to differentiatehomophones, e.g.la'the.F.SG' andlà'there'.
À is used inPortuguese to represent a contraction of the feminine singular definite articlea with the prepositiona or the demonstrativeaquele and its inflections and derivations (aquela, aquilo, aqueles, aquelas, aqueloutro(a), etc):
À is always unstressed, as opposed toÁ andÂ, which are always stressed.
In early orthographic descriptions of Scottish Gaelic from the 18th and 19th centuries, à is the only way to represent a long [a]; later forms of Scottish Gaelic also used the acute accent [á] to indicate a longer [a] sound.[1]
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