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 Translation for 'accent' from English to Swedish
NOUN   an accent | accents
VERB   to accent | accented | accented
accenting | accents
SYNO accent | accent mark | dialect | ...
ling.
accent {u}
accent
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Translation for 'accent' from English to Swedish

accent
accent {u}ling.
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Usage Examples English
  • There are two different patterns for assigning pitch accent: one for verbs and one for nouns and adjectives.
  • Since Modern Greek has a stress accent instead of a pitch accent, the circumflex has been replaced with an acute accent in the modern monotonic orthography.
  • In general, the accent after contraction copies the accent before contraction.
  • The Yat accent is the most pronounced version of the New Orleans accent and is perceptually similar to a New York accent.
  • Dybo's law was the first of the major accent shifts in Proto-Slavic.

  • McHugh's native accent is a softer variation of the Edinburgh accent.
  • Colognian and other Ripuarian dialects have two pitch accents, commonly called 'Accent 1' and 'Accent 2'.
  • The accent "Östgötska" can be distinguished from Standard Swedish just by accent and pronunciation of vowels and sje- and the- sounds, which makes Östgöta accent an eastern variety of the Götaland accent.
  • Proto-Slavic masculine "o"-stems with fixed accent on a non-acute root (accent paradigm b) become mobile-accent (accent paradigm c).
  • The Vedic accent is generally considered the most archaic, fairly faithfully reflecting the position of the original PIE accent.

  • In the later development of the language, the ancient pitch accent was replaced by an intensity or stress accent, making the three types of accent identical, and the [...] sound became silent.
  • Accents and unique speech patterns can influence how people are perceived by those to whom they are speaking.
  • "Pipkins" was one of the first children's programmes on British TV where the characters had regional accents: Pig had a Birmingham accent; Topov the monkey was a Cockney; Octavia the ostrich had a French accent; Pigeon had an Upper class English accent; Mrs Penguin had a Geordie accent; Uncle Hare had a West Country English accent; Sophie the cat had a non-regional English accent; and Moony the Badger had a Northern Ireland accent.
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