   (a-acute) is a letter of the czech, faroese, hungarian, icelandic, irish, sÃ¡mi and slovak languages. this letter also appears in dutch, galician, lakota, navajo, occitan, portuguese, spanish, vietnamese, and welsh as a variant of the letter âaâ. it also appears in arin, and blackfoot. it is sometimes confused with Ã ; e.g. "5 apples Ã¡ $1", which is more commonly written as "5 apples Ã  $1" ("5 apples at 1 dollar each"). == usage in various languages == === chinese === in chinese pinyin Ã¡ is the yÃ¡ngpÃ­ng tone (é³å¹³, high-rising tone) of "a". === irish === in irish, Ã¡ is called "a fada" (long a), pronounced  and appears in words such as slÃ¡n (goodbye). it is the only diacritic used in modern irish, since the decline of the dot above many letters in the irish language. fada is only used on vowel letters i.e. Ã¡, Ã©, Ã­, Ã³, Ãº. it symbolises a lengthening of the vowel, for example, "a" for "bad" and "Ã¡" for the second a in taiwan. === czech, hungarian, and slovak === Ã is the 2nd letter of the czech, hungarian and slovak languages and represents . === faroese === Ã is the 2nd letter of the faroese alphabet and represents  or . === icelandic === Ã is the 2nd letter of the icelandic alphabet and represents  (as in "ow"). === portuguese === in portuguese, Ã¡ is used to mark a stressed  in words whose stressed syllable is in an unpredictable location within the word, as in "lÃ¡" (there) and "rÃ¡pido" (rapid, fast). where the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, the acute accent is not used. Ã  contrasts with Ã¢, pronounced . ===scottish gaelic=== Ã was once used in scottish, but has now been largely superseded by "Ã ". it can still be seen in certain writings, but it is no longer used in standard orthography. === spanish === in spanish, Ã¡ is an accented letter, pronounced just the way "a" is. both Ã¡ and a sound like /a/. the accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns. it can also be used to "break up" a diphthong or to
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