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solar kestrelBOT
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shrewd halo
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I'm failing to find any example of words that are written with accented letters which are in turn not pronounced, so I suppose you can go with that

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Be aware however that accents do not necessarily change pronunciation. In France French, the circumflex accent almost never does, but it does change the meaning (e.g. mur (wall) / mûr (ripe))

snow karma
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Note that this only happens with E as other vowels don’t get reduced. Anyway, an unaccented E represents a schwa in most cases: it’s the first sound you make when you say ‘about’ in English. When that happens, this E can be skipped over. For example, the three-syllable verb « acheter (a-she-té) » is often pronounced with two syllables as (ash-té).

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In any case, you’re right in saying that an accented E is always pronounced. Our concern is with unaccented E because reductions (almost) always happen with unaccented E, but not all unaccented Es can be reduced. It’s detailed more in the link I gave.

autumn roost
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Thanks for taking your time to answer my question! It just showed me that french is more complicated than I thought heh. I'll read the article, it seems like it's gonna help me a lot.

queen fossil
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For other letters than E, accents serve a different purpose

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The circonflexe ^ is either just to show there used to be an s (which you can generally find in English, like forêt = forest) or to make a distinction like they said in mur vs mûr

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And the tréma ï is used to show it's pronounced separately from vowels next to it

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Bc ai for example is pronounced è so when you read aïe you know it's pronounced ay

reef gulch
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It still affects pronunciation tho

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reef gulch
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Yuckie

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Yippee

reef gulch
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The circonflexe can affect pronunciation especially in certain accents for e, a and o
I don't think it affects i or u though

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