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Definition 2024

grave_accent

grave accent

English

Noun

grave accent ‎(plural grave accents)

(countable) A diacritic mark ( ˋ ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.

Translations

grave accent

Arabic: نَبْرَة خَفِيضَة f ‎(nabra ḵafīḍa)
Catalan: accent obert
Chinese:
Mandarin: 重音符 ‎(zhòngyīnfú)
Dutch: accent grave (nl) n
Esperanto: maldekstra korno
Finnish: gravis (fi), gravisaksentti
French: accent grave (fr) m
German: Gravis (de) m
Greek: βαρεία (el) ‎(vareía)
Icelandic: öfugur broddur m
Irish: graif f

Japanese: グレイヴ・アクセント ‎(gureivu-akusento)
Norwegian: grav aksent c
Polish: gravis (pl) m
Portuguese: acento grave (pt) m
Russian: гра́вис (ru) m ‎(grávis), тупо́е ударе́ние n ‎(tupóje udarénije)
Spanish: acento grave m, grave (es)
Swedish: grav accent (sv) c
Tagalog: tuldik na paiwa
Turkish: peslik vurgusu
Ukrainian: гравіс m ‎(hrávis), тупий наголос m ‎(tupýj náholos)
Vietnamese: dấu huyền
Wolof: maaska tijji (wo)

Related terms

acute accent

Anagrams

accent grave