French with Julie - by French Toast FRENCH ACCENTS Accent Usage Examples ´ accent aigu Can only be used on the letter “e”. Changes the sound “euh” to something like the “a” in “jail”. étudiant / student bébé / baby écouter / to listen ` accent grave Can be found on the letters “a”, “e”, and “u”. On “a” & “u” : serves to distinguish between words that would otherwise be homographs (spelt the same way). On “e” : changes the sound “euh” to something like the “e” in “set”. où / where père / father mère / mother ^ accent circonflexe Can be on “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u”. Used to either change the sound to “ê” to something like the grave accent, as in “set”, or to distinguish between homographs. forêt / forest intérêt / interest fête / feast, party ¨ tréma Can be on the letters “e”, “i”, and “u”. Used when two vowels (a, e, i, o, u) are next to each other and both must be pronounced. naïve / naive noël / christmas maïs / corn ¸ cédille Found only on the letter “c”. Changes a hard sound (“k”) into a soft sound (“s”) garçon / boy leçon / lesson ça / this
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French with Julie - by French Toast
FRENCH ACCENTS
Accent Usage Examples
´ accent aigu Can only be used on the letter “e”. Changes the sound “euh” to something like the “a” in “jail”.
étudiant / studentbébé / babyécouter / to listen
` accent grave Can be found on the letters “a”, “e”, and “u”. On “a” & “u” : serves to distinguish between words that would otherwise be homographs (spelt the same way).On “e” : changes the sound “euh” to something like the “e” in “set”.
où / wherepère / fathermère / mother
^ accent circonflexe Can be on “a”, “e”, “i”, “o” and “u”. Used to either change the sound to “ê” to something like the grave accent, as in “set”, or to distinguish between homographs.
forêt / forestintérêt / interestfête / feast, party
¨ tréma Can be on the letters “e”, “i”, and “u”. Used when two vowels (a, e, i, o, u) are next to each other and both must be pronounced.
naïve / naivenoël / christmasmaïs / corn
¸ cédille Found only on the letter “c”.Changes a hard sound (“k”) into a soft sound (“s”)
garçon / boyleçon / lessonça / this
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