ä U+00E4, ä
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
Composition:a [U+0061] + ◌̈ [U+0308]
ã
[U+00E3]
Latin-1 Supplement å
[U+00E5]

TranslingualEdit

LetterEdit

ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The letter a with umlaut or diaeresis.

See alsoEdit

SymbolEdit

ä

  1. (phonetics) A letter sometimes used to represent the open central unrounded vowel in IPA.

Usage notesEdit

  • ä (a + centralised mark) is an official IPA symbol.

ArinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *axʷ (I). Compare Kott ai (I) and Pumpokol ad (I). Also see Assan aj.

PronounEdit

ä

  1. I (first-person singular subjective)

SynonymsEdit

Related termsEdit

ElfdalianEdit

NounEdit

ä f

  1. island

InflectionEdit

EstonianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.

See alsoEdit

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

See Ä.

PronunciationEdit

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LetterEdit

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.

See alsoEdit

GermanEdit

NounEdit

ä n (strong, genitive ä or äs, plural ä or äs)

  1. Alternative form of Ä

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • ä” in Duden online
  • ä” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

LivonianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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RomaniEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. (International Standard) Used to represent a dialectal centralized vowel.

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 499
  2. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “ä”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 16

Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See alsoEdit

SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɛ/, /ɛɐ̯/

LetterEdit

ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • ä in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SloveneEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From German ä, with its corresponding pronunciation, which is still used by some speakers, however, the majority of speakers have vernacularized the pronunciation to a long close-mid vowel regardless of the initial pronunciation.

Pronunciation 1Edit

LetterEdit

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. Additional letter in Slovene common mostly in loanwords from German.
NounEdit

ä m inan

  1. (educated) The name of the Latin script letter Ä / ä.

Usage notesEdit

It is more common to use the name preglašeni a than to use this name.

InflectionEdit

  • Overall more common
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. ä
gen. sing. ä-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
ä ä-ja ä-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
ä-ja ä-jev ä-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
ä-ju ä-jema ä-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
ä ä-ja ä-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
ä-ju ä-jih ä-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
ä-jem ä-jema ä-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. ä
gen. sing. ä
singular dual plural
nominative ä ä ä
accusative ä ä ä
genitive ä ä ä
dative ä ä ä
locative ä ä ä
instrumental ä ä ä

Pronunciation 2Edit

SymbolEdit

ä

  1. (SNPT) Phonetic transcription of dialectal sound [æ].

Etymology 2Edit

Letter a with diaeresis (¨) to signify centralization.

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The second letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Kenda-Jež, Karmen (February 27, 2017) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎[1] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, retrieved March 19, 2022, pages 27–30
  • Steenwijk, Han (1994) Ortografia resiana = Tö jošt rozajanskë pïsanjë (in it, sl-rozaj), Padua: CLEUP

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Letter name
Phoneme

LetterEdit

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The second last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronounced /ɛː/ when long, /ɛ/ when short, /æː/ when long and before r, and /æ/ when short and before r.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ä 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ä äet än äna
Genitive äs äets äns änas

Further readingEdit

TeribeEdit

NounEdit

ä

  1. axe

ReferencesEdit

  • Gamarra A., Enrique; Villagra S., Inocencio (1980) Llëbo ñaglo lok kibokwogo ëre e lanyo = Vocabulario ilustrado teribe-español[2] (in Teribe and Spanish), Instituto Nacional de Cultura & Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 92

TurkmenEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /æ/, /æː/

LetterEdit

ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The sixth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ä and written in the Latin script.

See alsoEdit

VolapükEdit

PrefixEdit

ä

  1. Verbal prefix for the imperfect tense.

WestrobothnianEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ä n

  1. Contraction of he.

ArticleEdit

ä n

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of n
    Han jär ä nöut.
    He is dense (lit. he is a neat.)

Alternative formsEdit