Alphabet Sounds and Accent Marks

eff/air/ee/day/ah/ee grec

• friend
• friday
• french
• fries

blue

• bay/elle/ah/ess/tay
• bay/elle/ah/say/kah
• bay/elle/ew/uh
• bay/air/oh/double vay/en

an English word that looks like a French word and means the same

• cognate
• cedilla
• circonflex

accent mark that is only used on the letter c

• grave
• circonflex
• trema
• cedilla

accent mark that is only used on the letter e

• grave
• circonflex
• trema
• aigu

double vay/ee/en/tay/uh/air

• white
• windy
• winter
• window

accent mark that tells you an "s" has been removed from a word

• cognate
• cedilla
• circonflex
• grave

rules

• air/ew/elle/uh/ess
• air/oh/ew/en/day
• air/ew/bay/bay/uh/air
• air/ew/en/en/uh/air

ess/osh/ah/day/oh/double vay

• shine
• share
• show
• shadow

accent mark that tells you the meaning of a word

• grave
• aigu
• trema
• cognate