ä

See also: Ä, ӓ, -ä, and Variations of "a"

ä - Translingual

Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

The letter a with umlaut or diaeresis.

Symbol

(phonetics) A letter sometimes used to represent the open central unrounded vowel in IPA.

Usage notes

ä (a + centralised mark) is an official IPA symbol.

ä - Arin

Pronoun

I (first-person singular subjective)

Synonyms

Related terms

aiŋ

ä - Elfdalian

Noun

ä f

island

Inflection

feminine	singular		plural
feminine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ä	enę	äer	äär
accusative	ä	enę	äer	äär
dative	ä	e'n	äum	äum(e)
genitive	—	—	—	—

ä - Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈæː/

Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.

ä - Finnish

Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

The twenty-seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ää and written in the Latin script.

ä - German

Noun

ä n (strong, genitive ä or äs, plural ä or äs)

Alternative form of Ä

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	ä	die	ä, äs
genitive	eines	des	ä, äs	der	ä, äs
dative	einem	dem	ä	den	ä, äs
accusative	ein	das	ä	die	ä, äs

ä - Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /æ/

Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

The third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

ä - Romani

Pronunciation

IPA: () /ɨ/, () /ə/

Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

(International Standard) Used to represent a dialectal centralized vowel.

ä - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /a/

Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

The thirty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

ä - Slovak

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /ɛ/, /ɛɐ̯/

Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

The third letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

ä - Slovene

Pronunciation 1

(phoneme): IPA: /éː/, /èː/, [ɛ́ː]
(letter name, common): IPA: /prɛɡlaʃɛ̀ːni àː/, /prɛɡlaʃɛ̀ːni áː/ (preglašeni a)
(letter name, educated): IPA: /ɛ̀ː/, /ɛ́ː/
Homophone: e

Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

Additional letter in Slovene common mostly in loanwords from German.

Noun

ä m inan

(educated) The name of the Latin script letter Ä / ä.

Usage notes

It is more common to use the name preglašeni a than to use this name.

Inflection

Overall more common

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	ä
gen. sing.	ä-ja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ä	ä-ja	ä-ji
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ä-ja	ä-jev	ä-jev
dative (dajȃlnik)	ä-ju	ä-jema	ä-jem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ä	ä-ja	ä-je
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ä-ju	ä-jih	ä-jih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ä-jem	ä-jema	ä-ji

More common when with a definite adjective

Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing.	ä
gen. sing.	ä
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ä	ä	ä
accusative	ä	ä	ä
genitive	ä	ä	ä
dative	ä	ä	ä
locative	ä	ä	ä
instrumental	ä	ä	ä

Pronunciation 2

(sound) IPA: [æ]

Symbol

(SNPT) Phonetic transcription of dialectal sound [æ].

Pronunciation

(Resian) IPA: /ɐ/

Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

The second letter of the Resian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

ä - Swedish

Pronunciation

Letter name

IPA: /ɛː/

Phoneme

IPA: /ɛː/, /ɛ/

Letter

ä (lower case, upper case Ä)

The second last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronounced /ɛː/ when long, /ɛ/ when short, /æː/ when long and before r, and /æ/ when short and before r.

Declension

Declension of ä
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ä	äet	än	äna
Genitive	äs	äets	äns	änas

ä - Teribe

Noun

ä - Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /æ/, /æː/

Letter

ä (upper case Ä)

The sixth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ä and written in the Latin script.

ä - Volapük

Prefix

Verbal prefix for the imperfect tense.