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Some letters may take written accents or other symbols (these extra marks are known in linguistics as…
diacritics
How is “Ç” called in French?
“c cédille”
Garçon
Maçon
Ça
Français
How is “è” called in French?
“e accent grave”
A grave accent can also occur on the letter a: à.
père très j’espère je mène
How is “é” called in French?
“e accent aigu”
école petit-déjeuner métro né
how do you call “ê” in French
“e accent circonflexe”
être pêche forêt même
Circumflex accents can also occur on the letters a, i, o and u: â, î, ô, û.
How do you call “ë” in French
“e tréma”
Noël aiguë Gaëtan
The tréma does not change the pronunciation of the letter it sits on but indicates that it should be pronounced as a separate sound from the previous one. In the case of ‘guë’ it indicates that the ‘u’ should be pronounced too. For example, in the word vague, the letters gue are pronounced /g/:
vague
in the word vague, the letters gue are pronounced /g/: (mia: as it doesnt have the “trema”
The letters o and e sometimes appear as a combined letter (. (This is called a…
…ligature in linguistic terminology.)
Name: e dans l’o (œ) (there is another card to know how to actually say “e dans l’o”
Alt shortcuts for
(Œ)
(œ)
Alt+0140: Uppercase OE diphthong (Œ)
Alt+0156: Lowercase oe diphthong (œ)
e dans l’o (œ)
