
It can also combine with "Ê" to form "Ề".
È ( è) is used in Vietnamese to represent the letter "E" with the dấu huyền tone. È ( è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds and in Scottish Gaelic. È ( è) is also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave ( Ѐ, ѐ). 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 for an with a falling tone in pinyin, the Chinese language roman-alphabet transcription system. È in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk) is used in some words to denote a longer vowel such as in karrière (career). È (è) is used in Limburgish for the sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'. È is also used to mark a stressed at the end of a word only, as in caffè. It is derived from Latin ĕst and is accented to distinguish it from the conjunction e meaning "and". il cane è piccolo meaning "the dog is small". In French, it always represents a sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable. In Emilian, è is used to represent, e.g. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè. For example, blessèd would indicate the pronunciation / ˈ b l ɛ s ɪ d/ BLESS-id rather than / b l ɛ s t/ BLEST.
In English, the letter è 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 the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).