Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "È or è can beThe letter E with a grave accent.In English, the letter è is sometimes used in the past tense forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example, blessèd would indicate the pronunciation BLES-id rather than BLEST. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè. In French, it always represents a [ɛ] sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable. È means \"is\" in modern Italian [ɛ], e.g."@en }
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- È comment "È or è can beThe letter E with a grave accent.In English, the letter è is sometimes used in the past tense forms of verbs in poetic texts to indicate that the final syllable should be pronounced separately. For example, blessèd would indicate the pronunciation BLES-id rather than BLEST. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè. In French, it always represents a [ɛ] sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable. È means \"is\" in modern Italian [ɛ], e.g.".