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1. (IPACategory:IPA symbols#◌̀) a low tone.
2. (IPACategory:IPA symbols#◌̀, obsoleteCategory:Translingual terms with obsolete senses#◌̀) a falling tone, or, in contrast to low ⟨◌̖⟩, a high falling tone.
3. (UPACategory:UPA symbols#◌̀) a slightly long vowel or consonant; between unmarked length and half-long ⟨◌͐⟩.
4. (Lithuanian dialectology) Marks a stressed short syllable.

Further reading

• Grave accent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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1. (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#◌̀) Used to indicate that the suffix -ed is pronounced with a schwa: lookèd (IPA /ˈlʊkəd/); past-tense learned vs adjective learnèd. Often used for metrical reasons.
2. (lexicographyCategory:en:Lexicography#◌̀) Sometimes used for secondary stress in glossaries that use ◌́Category:English terms in nonstandard scripts#◌̀ for primary stress when full pronunciations are not given.
3. Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words, particularly when unassimilated: à la carte, crème brûlée, pièce de résistance, pied-à-terre, tête-à-tête, vis-à-vis.
4. (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#◌̀) An affectation in some proper names: e.g. Ketèlbey.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Greek script, called βαρεῖα (bareîa, “heavy”) in Ancient Greek, and found on Ὰ (À)/ὰ (à), Ὲ (È)/ὲ (è), Ὴ (Ḕ)/ὴ (ḕ), Ὶ (Ì)/ὶ (ì), Ὸ (Ò)/ὸ (ò), Ὺ (Ù)/ὺ (ù) and Ὼ (Ṑ)/ὼ (ṑ). It is also known by its Latin name accentus gravis or the English name grave accent. It was used to indicate the presence of the accent on the last syllable of a word when immediately followed by another stressed word.

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1. (lexicographyCategory:bg:Lexicography#◌) Used to indicate a stressed syllable, placed over a vowel letter.
2. Used to disambiguate the pronoun ѝ (ì) from the conjunction и (i, “and”).

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent greu (“grave accent”) in Catalan, and found on À/à, È/è and Ò/ò.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent grave (“grave accent”) in Dutch, and found on À/à and È/è.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent grave (“grave accent”) in French, and found on À/à, È/è and Ù/ù.
   • 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian‎ (in English), archived from the original on 4 April 2025:

     California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).

     Category:French terms with quotations#◌̀

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1. Represents the third tone of Taiwanese Hokkien in Pe̍h-ōe-jī.
2. Represents the second tone of Taiwanese Hokkien in Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols.

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1. marks unpredictable stress assignment. Outside lexicography, it may be limited to final syllables.
2. distinguishes stressed /ɛ ɔ/ from /e o/.

See also

• accento grave

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1. (now uncommonCategory:Latin terms with uncommon senses#◌̀) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accentus gravis (“grave accent”) in Latin, and found on à, è, ò.

See also

• ´, ^

Further reading

• Institutiones linguae latinae et graecae pro infima grammatices ad normam Emmanuelis Alvari et Jacobi Gretseri Societatis Jesu, in usum scholarum Provinciae S. J. ad Rhenum superiorem nova methodo adornatae. Editio quarta, Augusta Vindelicorum, 1779, p. 212 in Erster Anhang. De orthographia.:

  (`) (´) Accentus gravis & acútus. Gravis (`) wird zum Besten der Lernenden nicht unrecht gebraucht bey den Adverbiis, um sie von anderen Partibus Orationis zu unterscheiden, als: Eò, quò, tantò, doctè, &c. [...] ( Nota. Wie die Interpunctiones recht zu gebrauchen seyen, wird in der Lehr de Periŏdis erörtert.

• Thomae Ruddimanni institutiones grammaticae latinae. Curante Godofredo Stallbaum. Pars secunda syntaxin continens, Lipsia, 1823, p. 39 of the Appendix. Grammaticae latinae institutionum pars tertia ex compendio Ruddimanni repetita:

  Toni sive Accentus sunt tres, Acutus, Gravis, et Circumflexus. [...] Gravis est qui syllabam gravat, seu deprimit; ac signatur lineola obliqua a sinistra in dextram ascendente, hoc modo [`]: ut, doctè. [...]

• Allen Fisk, Adam's Latin Grammar; simplified, by Means of an Introduction: Designed to facilitate the Study of Latin Grammar, [...]. Fifth Edition, from the second Edition, revised and corrected, New-York, 1830, p. 182:

  "There are three accents [...] 2. The grave or base accent depresses the voice, or keeps it in its natural tone; and is thus marked [`]; as, doctè. This accent properly belongs to all syllables which have no other accent. [...] The accents are [..] seldom marked in Latin books, unless for the sake of distinction, as in these adverbs, aliquò, continuò, doctè, unà, &c. to distinguish them from certain cases of adjectives, which are spelt in the same way. [...]

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acénto grâve (“grave accent”) in Ligurian, and found on À/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò and Ù/ù.
   1. Used to denote stressed /a/, /ɛ/, /i/, /y/
   2. Used to denote stressed or unstressed /ɔ/

See also

• ´
• ^

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1. (linguisticsCategory:mk:Linguistics#◌̀) A diacritical mark, called надреден знак (nadreden znak), found on Ѐ/ѐ and Ѝ/ѝ, and used to disambiguate the не (ne) from нѐ (nè), се (se) from сѐ (sè), and и (i) from ѝ (ì).

References

• “Надреден знак”, in Правопис на македонскиот јазик (Pravopis na makedonskiot jazik) [Orthography of the Macedonian language]‎ (in Macedonian), 2nd edition, Skopje: Institute of Macedonian language "Krste Misirkov" – Skopje, 2017, page 141

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called 重音符 (zhòngyīnfú, “grave tone mark”) in Mandarin, and found on À/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ù/ù and Ǜ/ǜ, representing the 去聲 / 去声 (qùshēng, “departing tone”), also known as the 第四聲 / 第四声 (“fourth tone”), in Pinyin.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acento grave (“grave accent”) in Portuguese, and found on À/à.

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1. (International StandardCategory:Romani International Standard spellings#◌̀) A diacritical mark of the Latin script in Romani, and found on À/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò and Ù/ù.

References

• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “DECISION : "THE ROMANI ALPHABET"”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 499
• “Introduction 3. How to read Rromani”, in R.E.D-RROM‎, 27 September 2021 (last accessed)
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018), ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17,

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1. (lexicographyCategory:sh:Lexicography#◌̀) A diacritical mark, both in the Cyrillic and Latin script, used to denote a short-rising accent. Not used in everyday writing. Can be used on vowels and the syllabic R:
   • Cyrillic: А̀а̀ Ѐѐ Ѝѝ О̀о̀ У̀у̀ Р̀р̀
   • Latin: Àà Èè Ìì Òò Ùù R̀r̀

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called paiwa (“grave accent”) in Tagalog, and found on À/à, È/è, Ë̀/ë̀, Ì/ì, Ò/ò and Ù/ù.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu huyền (“hanging mark”) in Vietnamese, and found on À/à, Ằ/ằ, Ầ/ầ, È/è, Ề/ề, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ồ/ồ, Ờ/ờ, Ù/ù, Ừ/ừ and Ỳ/ỳ. Used to indicate low-falling, possibly breathy tone.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acen ddisgynedig (“descended accent”) in Welsh, and found on À/à, È/è, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ù/ù, Ẁ/ẁ and Ỳ/ỳ.

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1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called àmì ohùn ìsàlẹ̀ (“low-tone mark”) in Yoruba, and found on À/à, È/è, Ẹ̀/ẹ̀, Ì/ì, Ò/ò, Ọ̀/ọ̀, Ù/ù, Ǹ/ǹ and M̀/m̀. Used to indicate low-tone, or falling-tone when after ◌́Category:Yoruba terms in nonstandard scripts#◌̀

See also

• dò (“syllable used to represent the low tone”)
• ìró ohùn ìsàlẹ̀ (“low tone”)