È

È, è (e-grave) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. In English, è is formed with an addition of a grave accent onto the letter E and 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 example, blessèd would indicate the pronunciation  rather than. It also occurs in loanwords such as Italian caffè.

In other languages

 * In Emilian, è is used to represent [ɛː], e.g. lèt [lɛːt] "bed".
 * In French, it always represents a sound of letter e when this is at the end of a syllable.
 * È means "is" in modern Italian, 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 at the end of a word only, as in caffè.
 * È (è) is used in Limburgish for the sound, like in the word 'Sjtèl'.
 * 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 also used in Macedonian Latin as an equivalent of the letter ye with grave (Ѐ, ѐ).
 * In Romagnol, it represents [ɛ], e.g. vècc' [vɛtʃː] "old men".
 * È (è) is used to mark the long vowel sounds and  in Scottish Gaelic.
 * È (è) is used in Vietnamese to represent the letter "E" with the dấu huyền tone. It can also combine with "Ê" to form "Ề".
 * È (è) is also used for an 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.

Key strokes

 * Microsoft Windows users can type an "è" by pressing Alt232 or Alt38 on the numeric pad of the keyboard. "È" can be typed by pressing Alt200 or Alt12. Linux users may type an "è" with the Compose key (default is Right Alt) by pressing ComposeE` in sequence. "È" can be typed by pressing ComposeShift` in sequence.