grave accent

English

Noun

grave accent (plural grave accents)

1. (countable) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.

Related terms

• acute accent

Translations

grave accent

• Arabic: نَبْرَة خَفِيضَة‎ f (nabra ḵafīḍa)
• Catalan: accent obert
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重音符 (zhòngyīnfú)

• Dutch: accent grave (nl) n
• Esperanto: maldekstra korno
• Estonian: graavis
• Finnish: gravis (fi), gravisaksentti, graavi (fi)
• French: accent grave (fr) m
• German: Gravis (de) m
• Greek: βαρεία (el) (vareía)
• Hungarian: tompa ékezet
• Icelandic: öfugur broddur m, bakbroddur m
• Irish: graif f

• Italian: accento grave m
• Japanese: グレイヴ・アクセント (gureivu-akusento)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: grav aksent c
• Polish: gravis (pl) m
• Portuguese: acento grave (pt) m
• Russian: гра́вис (ru) m (grávis), тупо́е ударе́ние n (tupóje udarénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: краткоузлазни нагласак m (for Serbo-Croatian accents)

  Latin: kratkouzlazni naglasak m (for Serbo-Croatian accents)

• Spanish: acento grave m, grave (es)
• Swedish: grav accent (sv) c
• Tagalog: paiwa
• Turkish: peslik vurgusu
• Ukrainian: гравіс m (hrávis), тупий наголос m (tupýj náholos)
• Vietnamese: dấu huyền
• Wolof: maaska tijji (wo)

Anagrams

• accent grave