When the aigu is used at the beginning of a word, it often indicates that an s used to follow that vowel, for example étudiant (student) or étudier (to study):Ī student who studies at the school. The aigu is placed on the end of a word to indicate that the letter e is pronounced like ay, as in marché (market), or parlé (spoken) or the place you’ve probably already visited several times this week, café. Think of eggs or a tasty French omelette to help you remember this rule. The accent aigu looks like this: ´ , a little apostrophe-like mark that floats up into the sky (é). This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. Let’s take a look at all of the French accent marks, followed by creative ways to type French accent marks on English keyboards. This obviously begs the question- how do we type these symbols? See that little appendage on the “c?” It’s an accent mark, and it makes a huge difference in French pronunciation.

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