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The É (lower case é) is a letter of the Latin writing system. It consists of an E with an acute above it.
In French, the letter "e/E" is called avec accent aigu (only for É and é). It is used to determine the pronunciation as /e/ when, without a diacritical mark, it would be pronounced as /ɛ/, /ə/, or not at all. In some words, it is also pronounced ɛ, such as in réglementaire. According to the 1990 French spelling reform, È should be used in these cases, but this reform did not catch on.
In Luxembourgish, it is used for a particularly strongly accented e.
In Spanish, the É indicates that the syllable in which the sign occurs is to be stressed. It is also used in ambiguous words to distinguish them from each other (e.g. el (the) and él (he/it)), and in all interrogative words.
In Icelandic, the É was reintroduced in 1929, replacing the digraph je. It is pronounced, as the digraph suggests, /jɛ/.
In Czech and Slovak, the É is a long E and is pronounced /ɛ:/. In Hungarian, the normal E also represents the sound /ɛ/, but the É is pronounced /eː/ in this language.
In Vietnamese, the É is the letter E (/ɛ/) in the rising tone. The same is true in Pinyin.
In German texts, the é occurs on average with a frequency of 0.01 %. This makes the É the most frequent letter in German that does not belong to the German alphabet.
Display on the computer
In Unicode, the É occupies the code points U+00C9 (upper case) and U+00E9 (lower case). In ISO 8859-1, the letter is in the same positions.
On keyboards, the É is produced with the acute tone key pressed first, followed by either the upper or lower case E.
- Capital letter É: ' - Shift+E
- Lower case é: ' - E
The Icelandic and Faroese keyboard layouts also do not provide separate keys for the letters á, (é), í, ó, ú, ý, so that the input there is also done as described above.
In TeX, you can form the É in text typesetting with \'E or \'e in text typesetting. In graphical typesetting, the corresponding commands are \acute E and \acute e. \acute e.
In HTML you can specify the É with É or é.
Questions and Answers
Q: What is é?
A: É is a letter that is not regularly found in the English language. It is the letter E with an acute accent above it.
Q: In which languages can é be found?
A: É can be found in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kashubian, Luxembourgish, Occitan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, and Welsh languages.
Q: Can é be found in English words?
A: Yes, it can be found in loanwords and romanizations. Examples include résumé, cliché, and Pokémon.
Q: What is the function of the acute accent above the letter E in é?
A: The acute accent changes the pronunciation of the letter E to a more closed and higher sound.
Q: Is é a letter in itself?
A: Yes, é is considered a letter on its own and is a separate entity from the letter E.
Q: How is é pronounced?
A: É is pronounced like the letter E, but with a closed and higher sound due to the acute accent.
Q: Can é be used in the English language without being a loanword or a romanization?
A: No, é is not regularly used in the English language without being borrowed from another language or used in a romanization.
