Editing Acute accent (section)

=== Disambiguation ===
The acute accent is used to disambiguate certain words which would otherwise be [[homograph]]s in the following languages:

*[[Catalan language|Catalan]]. Examples: ''són'' "they are" vs. ''son'' "tiredness", ''més'' "more" vs. ''mes'' "month".
*[[Danish language|Danish]]. Examples: ''én'' "one" vs. ''en'' "a/an"; ''fór'' "went" vs. ''for'' "for"; ''véd'' "know(s)" vs. ''ved'' "by"; ''gǿr'' "bark(s)" vs. ''gør'' "do(es)"; ''dǿr'' "die(s)" vs. ''dør'' "door"; ''allé'' "alley" vs. ''alle'' "everybody". Furthermore, it is also used for the imperative form of verbs ending in ''-ere'', which lose their final ''e'' and might be mistaken for plurals of a noun (which most often end in ''-er''): ''analysér'' is the imperative form of ''at analysere'' "to analyse", ''analyser'' is "analyses", plural of the noun ''analyse'' "analysis". Using an acute accent is always optional, never required.
*[[Dutch language|Dutch]]. Examples: ''één'' "one" vs. ''een'' "a/an"; ''vóór'' "before" vs. ''voor'' "for"; ''vóórkomen'' "to exist/to happen" vs. ''voorkómen'' "to prevent/to avoid". Using an acute accent is mostly optional.
*[[Modern Greek]]. Although all polysyllabic words have an acute accent on the stressed syllable, in monosyllabic words the presence or absence of an accent may disambiguate. The most common case is {{char|η}}, the feminine definite article ("the"), versus {{char|ή}}, meaning "or". Other cases include {{lang|el|που}} ("who"/"which") versus {{lang|el|πού}} ("where") and {{lang|el|πως}} ("that", as in "he told me ''that''...") versus {{lang|el|πώς}} ("how").
*[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]. It is used to indicate stress on a vowel otherwise not expected to have stress. Most words are stressed on the first syllable and diacritical marks are rarely used. Although incorrect, it is frequently used to mark the imperative form of verbs ending in ''-ere'' as it is in Danish: ''kontrollér'' is the imperative form of "to control", ''kontroller'' is the noun "controls". The simple past of the verb ''å fare'', "to travel", can optionally be written ''fór'', to distinguish it from ''for'' (preposition "for" as in English), ''fôr'' "feed" ''n.''/"lining", or ''fòr'' (only in [[Nynorsk]]) "narrow ditch, trail by plow" (all the diacritics in these examples are optional.<ref>[http://sprakradet.no/Raad/Skriveregler_og_grammatikk/Aksentteikn/ Norwegian language council, Diacritics (in Norwegian)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070923030648/http://sprakradet.no/Raad/Skriveregler_og_grammatikk/Aksentteikn/ |date=September 23, 2007 }}</ref>)
*[[Russian language|Russian]]. Acute accents (technically, [[#Stress|stress marks]]) are used in dictionaries to indicate the stressed syllable. They may also be optionally used to disambiguate both between [[minimal pair]]s, such as  за́мок (read as zámak, means "castle") and замо́к (read as zamók, means "lock"), and between [[interrogative word|question words]] and [[relative pronoun]]s such as что ("what", stressed, or "that", unstressed), similarly to Spanish. This is rare, however, as usually meaning is determined by context and no stress mark is written. The same rules apply to [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Rusyn language|Rusyn]], [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]].
*[[Spanish language|Spanish]]. Covers various question word / relative pronoun pairs where the first is stressed and the second is a [[clitic]], such as ''cómo'' (interrogative "how") and ''como'' (non-interrogative "how", comparative "like", "I eat"<ref>This makes "''¿Cómo como? Como como como.''" correct sentences (How I eat? I eat like I eat.)</ref>), differentiates ''qué'' (what) from ''que'' (that), and some other words such as ''tú'' "you" and ''tu'' "your," ''té'' "tea" and ''te'' "you" (direct/indirect object), ''él'' "he/him" and ''el'' ("the", masculine). This usage of the acute accent is called ''tilde diacrítica''.