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Sentences with DIERESIS

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"In Spanish, the dieresis is used to indicate that two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately."
2
"The word naïve has a dieresis over the 'i', indicating that it is pronounced separately from the 'e'."
3
"The dieresis in the word coöperate signifies that both 'o' and 'e' should be pronounced individually."
4
"The poet used a dieresis in the word Noël to show that both 'o' and 'e' are pronounced distinctly."
5
"German uses the dieresis to indicate that vowels in certain combinations are pronounced as separate syllables, as in 'Müller'."
6
"The word reënter has a dieresis over the 'e' to indicate that it is pronounced distinctly from the 'e' in 're' and 'enter'."
7
"In French, the dieresis is used for some specific cases to show that two consecutive vowels are pronounced separately."
8
"In Finnish, the dieresis is used to show that two vowels should be pronounced as separate syllables, as in 'poikaa'."
9
"Spanish speakers learn at a young age when to use a dieresis to pronounce two adjacent vowels separately."
10
"The word coördinate uses a dieresis over the first 'o' to indicate it is not merged with the preceding 'o'."
11
"In Catalan, the dieresis may be used to break diphthongs and pronounce the two vowels separately, such as in 'vaïna'."
12
"The dieresis is often used in poetry to indicate a break between two vowel sounds in adjacent syllables."
13
"The word naïve is commonly used in English with a dieresis over the 'i' to preserve the correct pronunciation."
14
"In Spanish, the word vergüenza uses a dieresis over the 'u' to indicate it should not be pronounced as a diphthong."
15
"The word naïveté is borrowed from French, where the dieresis indicates the separate pronunciation of 'i' and 'e'."
16
"German names like 'Hermann', 'Gottfried', or 'Heß' may have a dieresis to indicate the separate pronunciation of two adjacent vowels."
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