   ve (Ð&nbsp;Ð²; italics: Ð&nbsp;Ð²) is a letter of the cyrillic script. it commonly represents the voiced labiodental fricative , like the pronunciation of  in "very". the capital letter ve is shaped exactly like the capital latin letter b but is pronounced differently. ve is usually romanized using the latin letter v, but sometimes using the latin letter w.  ==history== ve and the cyrillic letter be (Ð&nbsp;Ð±) were both derived from the greek letter beta (Î&nbsp;Î²), which already represented  in greek by the time the cyrillic alphabet was created. in the early cyrillic alphabet its name was  (vÄdÄ), meaning "i know". in the cyrillic numeral system, ve had the value of 2. ==usage== in russian and bulgarian, ve generally represents , but at the end of a word or before voiceless consonants it represents the voiceless  and before a palatalizing vowel it represents . in standard ukrainian pronunciation (based on the poltava dialect), ve represents a sound like the english w () when in the word final position. because of this, it is not uncommon to see words ending in  transcribed to end in , for example,  = vladyslaw for vladislav. additionally, some ukrainians also use such pronunciation in words where the letter is directly preceded by a consonant, while for others all occurrences of the letter ve denote . in eastern ukraine, the letter ve may represent a voiceless , but this is considered a russianism, as word-final devoicing does not occur in standard ukrainian. for example, the standard ukrainian pronunciation of the word  (being said) is . however in eastern ukraine one is likely to hear the russified  (with final devoicing). in belarusian, the letter ve represents only the sound . in the word final position, or if directly proceeded by a consonant, it mutates to the letter short u (Ð&nbsp;Ñ), a belarusian letter representing the sound . e.g., the belarusian noun "language" is  (mova), but the adjectival form is  (mowny), and the genitive plural of the noun (formed by removing the final ) is  (mow). 
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