Noun: accent
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | accent |
| Plural m | accents |
Sample Sentences
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Elle parle anglais avec un fort accent français. (She speaks English with a strong French accent.)
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Aux États-Unis, son accent français ne manque jamais d'attirer l'attention des femmes. (In the United States, his French accent never fails to attract women's attention.)
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L'accent est mis sur les quantités plutôt que sur les qualités. (Emphasis is placed on the quantities rather than the qualities.)
Nouns inflected like accent
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, accent, borrowed from Latin accentus (“accent, tone, accentuation”). See: Latin Nouns '
accentus'.
Verbs referencing "accent"
Danish Nouns
accent, Romanian Nouns
accent, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
aksent, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
aksent, Ukrainian Nouns
акцент.
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