acute accent
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Tweet n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. that a vowel is long, as in Czech dobrá. d. that the syllable in which the vowel appears is stressed, as in Spanish fácil. |
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