État

See also: Etat, état, êtat, and etât

French

Alternative forms

état (generally proscribed)
Etat

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.ta/
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Noun

État m (plural États)

state, nation
government

Usage notes

In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

Derived terms

Further reading

“État”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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