ä

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ä U+00E4, ä
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
Composition:a [U+0061] + ◌̈ [U+0308]
ã
[U+00E3]
Latin-1 Supplement å
[U+00E5]

Translingual

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Symbol

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ä

  1. (IPA) Sometimes used to transcribe an open central unrounded vowel, as ⟨a⟩ is officially an open front vowel.
  2. (UPA) An open front unrounded vowel (IPA [æ]).
  3. (superscript ⟨ᵃ̈⟩, UPA) an extremely short or fleeting ä.
  4. (actuarial notation) Annuity-due.
    än̅|n-year annuity-due
    äx:n̅|n-year annuity-due to a person currently age x
    äxlife annuity-due to a person currently age x
    k-year deferred life annuity-due to a person currently age x, compounded m-thly

English

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Symbol

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ä

  1. (lexicography) A dictionary transcription for the PALM vowel

Arin

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *axʷ (I). Compare Kott ai (I) and Pumpokol ad (I). Also see Assan aj.

Pronoun

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ä

  1. I (first-person singular subjective)

Synonyms

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Dinka

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /a̤/

Letter

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. A letter of the Dinka alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Elfdalian

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Noun

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ä f

  1. island

Inflection

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Estonian

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Pronunciation

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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See Ä.

Pronunciation

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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In case of technical restrictions, ä should be represented by a (not ae, as in German).

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German

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Noun

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ä n (strong, genitive ä or äs, plural ä or äs)

  1. Alternative form of Ä

Declension

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Further reading

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  • ä” in Duden online
  • ä” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Livonian

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Pronunciation

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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North Frisian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɛ] (short vowel)
  • IPA(key): [ɛː] (long vowel, spelt ää)

Letter

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

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  • In Föhr-Amrum Frisian, single ⟨ä⟩ occurs only in word-final position. Elsewhere, [ɛ] is represented by ⟨e⟩.
  • Mooring Frisian uses ⟨ä⟩ for any [ɛ], the single letter ⟨e⟩ being reserved for the reduced vowel [ə], [ɐ].
  • Sylt Frisian does not use ⟨ä⟩ at all. Long [ɛː] occurs only before ⟨r⟩ in this dialect and is represented by ⟨ē, ai, ia⟩.

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Romani

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. (International Standard) Used to represent a dialectal centralized vowel.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “DECISION : "THE ROMANI ALPHABET"”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 499
  2. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ä”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 16

Skolt Sami

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Pronunciation

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovak

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɛ/, /ɛɐ̯/

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Further reading

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  • ä”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

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Etymology 1

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From German ä, with its corresponding pronunciation, which is still used by some speakers, however, the majority of speakers have vernacularized the pronunciation to a long close-mid vowel regardless of the initial pronunciation.

Pronunciation 1

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. Additional letter in Slovene common mostly in loanwords from German.
Noun
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ä m inan

  1. (educated) The name of the Latin script letter Ä / ä.

Usage notes

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It is more common to use the name preglašeni a than to use this name.

Inflection

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  • Overall more common
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. ä
gen. sing. ä-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
ä ä-ja ä-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
ä-ja ä-jev ä-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
ä-ju ä-jema ä-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
ä ä-ja ä-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
ä-ju ä-jih ä-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
ä-jem ä-jema ä-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. ä
gen. sing. ä
singular dual plural
nominative ä ä ä
accusative ä ä ä
genitive ä ä ä
dative ä ä ä
locative ä ä ä
instrumental ä ä ä

Pronunciation 2

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ä

  1. (SNPT) Phonetic transcription of dialectal sound [æ].

Etymology 2

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Letter a with diaeresis (¨) to signify centralization.

Pronunciation

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The second letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.

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References

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  • Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎[1] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30
  • Steenwijk, Han (1994) Ortografia resiana = Tö jošt rozajanskë pïsanjë (overall work in Italian and Slovene), Padua: CLEUP

Southern Tutchone

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Pronunciation

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  1. IPA(key): /ə/

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. A letter of the Southern Tutchone alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Letter name
Phoneme
  • IPA(key): /æː/, /æ/, /ɛː/, /ɛ/

Etymology 1

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The word aͤng (äng, meadow) from year 1777, where the now obsolete variation aͤ is still used.

Originally a ligature of A and E. During the 16th century, the letter began to be written as an A with a lower case e ontop (Aͤ respectively aͤ). During the first decades of the 18th century, the use of umlaut emerged.

Letter

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ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

  1. The second last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronounced /æː/ when long, /æ/ when short. In Central Swedish, these phonemes are partially merged with long /eː/ and short /ɛ/.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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ä

  1. (colloquial, Internet slang, text messaging) Pronunciation spelling of är.

Further reading

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Teribe

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Noun

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ä

  1. axe

References

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  • Gamarra A., Enrique, Villagra S., Inocencio (1980) Llëbo ñaglo lok kibokwogo ëre e lanyo = Vocabulario ilustrado teribe-español[2] (overall work in Teribe and Spanish), Instituto Nacional de Cultura & Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 92

Turkmen

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /æ/, /æː/

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The sixth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ä and written in the Latin script.

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Volapük

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Prefix

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ä

  1. Verbal prefix for the imperfect tense.

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ˈaː/, /ˌa/

Letter

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ä (upper case Ä)

  1. The letter A, marked for its syllabic pronunciation distinct from adjacent vowels.