breve

A diacritical mark shaped like a U placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.

• 🇫🇷Signe diacritique en forme de demi-cercle ou d'arc, placé au-dessus d'une voyelle pour indiquer qu'elle est brève.

1. Diacritical mark C1 formal

   A U-shaped mark placed over a vowel to indicate that it is pronounced as a short sound.

   • In the word 'căt', the breve over the 'a' shows it is a short vowel.
   • Linguists use a breve to mark short vowels in phonetic transcriptions.
   • The breve is the opposite of the macron, which indicates a long vowel.

   🇫🇷Brève (signe diacritique)

   Antonymes: macron