ä

Symbol

 * 1)  Sometimes used to transcribe an, as ⟨a⟩ is officially an open front vowel.
 * 2)  Annuity-due.

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Also see 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) I (first-person singular subjective)

Noun

 * 1) island

Etymology
See.

Usage notes
In case of technical restrictions, ä should be represented by a (not ae, as in German).

Etymology 1
From, with its corresponding pronunciation, which is still used by some speakers, however, the majority of speakers have vernacularized the pronunciation to a long close-mid vowel regardless of the initial pronunciation.

Letter

 * 1) Additional letter in Slovene common mostly in loanwords from German.

Usage notes
It is more common to use the name than to use this name.

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of dialectal sound [].

Etymology 2
Letter with diaeresis  to signify centralization.

Etymology
Originally a ligature of A and E. During the 16th century, the letter began to be written as an A with a lower case e ontop (Aͤ respectively aͤ). During the first decades of the 18th century, the use of umlaut emerged.

Pronunciation

 * Letter name
 * Phoneme
 * Phoneme

Letter

 * 1) The second last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronounced  when long,  when short,  when long and before r, and  when short and before r.

Noun

 * 1) axe

Prefix

 * 1) Verbal prefix for the imperfect tense.