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 Translation for 'letter y' from English to French
ling.
{m} grec
letter y
Partial Matches
chim.
yttrium {m} <Y>
yttrium <Y>
math.
axe {m} des ordonnés
y-axis
math.
axe {m} des Y
y-axis
math.
axe {m} Y
y-axis
unit
yocto- {prefix} <y> [10 ^ -24]
yocto- <y>
vêt.
slip {m} ouvert
Y-fronts
unit
yotta- {prefix} <Y> [10 ^ 24]
yotta- <Y>
unit
ronto- {prefix} <r> [10 ^ -27]
ronto- <y>
biochim.
tyrosine {f} <Tyr, Y>
tyrosine <Tyr, Y>
math.
Soit y = 25.
Let y = 25.
Savez ? [fam.]Y'know? [coll.]
Comprenez ? [fam.]Y'know? [coll.]
vêt.
slip {m} kangourou
Y-fronts® {pl} [esp. Br.]
regrouper X et Yto lump X with Y [idiom]
faire une distinction entre X et Yto make a distinction between X and Y
lettre {f}letter
3
en-tête {m} de lettreletter head
lettre {f} mortedead letter
lettre {f} modèlemodel letter
billet {m} douxlove letter
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Usage Examples English
  • The name derives from the shapes of the circuit diagrams, which look respectively like the letter Y and the Greek capital letter Δ.
  • ÿ is a Latin script character composed of the letter Y and the diaeresis diacritical mark.
  • The name originates from the similarity of their shape to that of the letter Y.
  • Latin-based Slavonic writing systems, such as Polish, Czech and the Latin version of Serbo-Croatian use the Latin letter J (not the letter Y, as in English or French), for that purpose.
  • The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Per fess, 1. Or, a letter Y Sable, 2. Sable, a Grape Bunch Or.".

  • The letter Y sometimes represents a consonant (as in "young") and sometimes a vowel (as in "myth"). Very rarely, W may represent a vowel (as in "cwm", a Welsh loanword).
  • The Spanish decree on change family names for easy identification of inhabitants led to the assignment of the initial letter 'Y'/ 'I' for families originating from Malinao.
  • This hand symbol represents the traditional tool used by miners, the pickaxe, and is similar to the shaka sign and the letter Y in American sign language.
  • To communicate with a helicopter in sight, raise both arms (forming the letter Y) to indicate "Yes" or "I need help," or stretch one arm up and one down (imitating the letter N) for "No" or "I do not need help".
  • The oldest direct ancestor of English letter Y was the Semitic letter "waw" (pronounced as [...]), from which also come F, U, V, and W.

  • The consonant [...] is restricted to positions adjacent to a vowel. It also cannot precede the letter "y".
  • In the final version of 1989 five more phonemes had been incorporated: letter H (/h/) was added to the alphabet in 1977 by popular demand; letter Y (/ə/) was added in 1982 to work as a kind of hyphen between the terms of a complex word; letters Q (/θ/), W (/y/) and X (/x/) were added in 1986 in order to allow the incorporation of the Linnaean vocabulary of biology, and they were useful to give more exact pronunciations to many borrowed names.
  • The letter "ÿ", which appears in French only very rarely, mainly in city names such as L'Haÿ-les-Roses and never at the beginning of words, is included only in lowercase form.
  • The letter Ÿ is sometimes used instead of Ӱ.
  • The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [...] , a small capital version of the Latin letter y, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is [...].

  • When transcribing exotic rimes (diphthongs or nasal endings), letters ꓮ and ꓬ can work like vowels just like English letter Y, making Fraser script behave like an abjadic alphabet like the Roman instead of an abugida like Tibetan; meanwhile space works like a delimiter like a Tibetan tseg, making a final consonant (such as ꓠ) possible without necessity of a halanta sign: 凉粉 [...] reads as [...] rather than as [...].
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