acute accent

• Signe diacritique (´) placé au-dessus d'une voyelle dans certaines langues pour indiquer une prononciation particulière, un accent tonique ou un ton, par exemple en français 'é' ou en espagnol 'á'.

A diacritic mark (´) placed over a vowel in certain languages to indicate a specific pronunciation, stress, or tone, such as in French 'é' or Spanish 'á'.

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   A diacritic mark (´) placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate a specific pronunciation, stress, or tone.

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   • In French, the word 'café' has an acute accent on the 'e'.
   • The acute accent in Spanish is used to mark stress, like in 'canción'.
   • The acute accent changes the pronunciation of the vowel in many languages.