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État

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See also: Etat, état, êtat, and etât

French

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /e.ta/
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Noun

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État m (plural États)

  1. state, nation
  2. government

Usage notes

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  • In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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