
In Norwegian, however, the neuter word "one" is spelled ett. Also stress-related are the different spellings of the words en/én and et/ét (the indefinite article and the word "one" in Danish and Norwegian).
Norwegian, Swedish and Danish use the acute accent to indicate that a terminal syllable with the e is stressed and is often omitted if it does not change the meaning: armen (first syllable stressed) means "the arm" while armé(e)n means "the army" ide (first syllable stressed) means "bear's den" while idé means "idea". Navajo where the acute marks a higher tone. Modern Greek marks the stressed vowel of every polysyllabic word: ά ( á), έ ( é), ή ( í), ί ( í), ό ( ó), ύ ( í), ώ ( ó). Leonese uses it for marking stress or disambiguation. For example, kákhi "in that direction" but kakhí "take something to someone back there".
However, these two words are usually pronounced the same way, which varies with region.
For example, pèsca "peach" ("open" or "wide" vowel, as in "pen") and pésca "fishing" ("closed" or "narrow" vowel, as in "pain").
Italian The accent is used to indicate the stress in a word, or whether the vowel is "open" or "wide", or "closed", or "narrow". Sometimes, it is simply used for disambiguation, as in één – een, meaning "one" and "a(n)". Dutch uses it to mark stress ( vóórkomen – voorkómen, meaning occur and prevent respectively) or a more closed vowel ( hé – hè, equivalent to English hey and heh) if it is not clear from context. Catalan uses it in stressed vowels: é, í, ó, ú. However, Bulgarian usually uses the grave accent to mark the vowel in a stressed syllable, unlike Russian, which uses the acute accent. Bulgarian: stress, which is variable in Bulgarian, is not usually indicated in Bulgarian except in dictionaries and sometimes in homonyms that are distinguished only by stress. Blackfoot uses acute accents to show the place of stress in a word: soyópokistsi "leaves". The acute accent marks the stressed vowel of a word in several languages: ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.