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les accents (m) | the accents | |||
l'accent aigu (m) | the acute accent | |||
é | e only | un abbé (a priest), le café (the coffee), l’été (the summer), un éléphant (an elephant) | ||
l'accent circonflexe (m) | the circumflex accent | |||
â | le gâteau (the cake), la pâte (the pastry), le bâtiment (the building) | |||
ê | la tête (the head), être (to be) | |||
î | une île (an island) | |||
ô | un apôtre (an apostle) | |||
û | la croûte (the crust), août (August), dû (past particle of devoir) | |||
l'accent grave (m) | the grave accent | |||
à | là (there) | |||
è | le procès (the trial), la fièvre (the fever) | |||
ù | où (where) | |||
la cédille | the cedilla | |||
ç | c only | la façade (the front face), français (French), le garçon (the boy) | ||
la ligature | the ligature | |||
œ | un œil (an eye), le bœuf (the beef) | |||
le tréma | the dieresis | |||
ë | Noël (Christmas) | |||
ï | haïr (to hate), le maïs (the corn) | |||
ü | rare | Saül (a commune of French Guiana located in South America) | ||
ÿ | rare | L'Haÿ-Les-Roses (a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris) | ||
Presented below in table format...click letters and French words to hear.
les accents | a | c | e | i | o | oe | u | y | les exemples | ||
l'accent aigu | é | un abbé | |||||||||
l'accent circonflexe | â | ê | î | ô | û | le gâteau, la tête, une île, un apôtre, la croûte | |||||
l'accent grave | à | è | ù | là, le procès, où | |||||||
la cédille | ç | la façade | |||||||||
la ligature | œ | un œil, le bœuf | |||||||||
le tréma | ë | ï | ü | ÿ | Noël, haïr, Saül, L'Haÿ-Les-Roses | ||||||
Note that when you spell aloud an accented letter in French, you identify the accent, like in the following examples:
café -
spelled "c - a - f - e accent
aigu"
bâtiment - spelled "b -
a accent circonflexe -
t - i - m - e - n - t"
garçon - spelled "g - a - r -
c cédille - o - n"
maïs - spelled "m - a -
i tréma - s"
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