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. 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 [ɛ] at the end of a word only, as in caffè. È (è) is also used for an [ɤ] with a falling tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China. È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).Windows users can type an è by holding the \"Alt\" key down and keying 138."@en }
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- È abstract "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. 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 [ɛ] at the end of a word only, as in caffè. È (è) is also used for an [ɤ] with a falling tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system. The word 鄂, consisting only of this vowel, is an abbreviation for the Hubei province of the People's Republic of China. È (è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).Windows users can type an è by holding the \"Alt\" key down and keying 138.".