Les accents et la poncutation (The Accents and punctuation)
Les accents
L'accent aigu (accute accent) : é (ay)
- été (summer)
- Placed mostly on letter e
L'accent grave (grave accent) : è (eh)
- mère (mother)
- Found on letters a, e, u. But the sound changes only with letter e
L'accent circonflexe (circumflex accent) : ^
- hôtel (hotel)
- Found on vowel a, e, i, o, u. Sound remain the same
l'accent cédille (cedilla accent) : ç (seh)
- garçon (boy)
- Found on c changes the sound from 'keh' to 'seh'
le tréma (Umlaut) : ë
- Noël (christmas)
- To pronounce both separatly, when 2 vowels are together.