Accents are essential to correctly using the French language: the pronunciation and meaning of a word can change with or without an accent.

The French language uses five different kinds of accents (diacritics): l’accent aigu (acute accent), l’accent grave (grave accent), l’accent circonflexe (circumflex), le tréma (umlaut/dieresis), la cédille (cedilla).

With which letters are these accents used? How do they change the sound of letters?his is what we will see in this article, which ends with some exercises to test your knowledge and practice!