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# accent

«accent» in Mova's school dictionary: **the way people from a place or country pronounce a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an accent, accents); verb (accent, accented — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An accent is the way people from a place or country pronounce a language: a Scottish accent, an American accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m1)

2) An accent is extra force on one part of a word when you say it, called stress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m2)

3) An accent is a small mark above or below a letter that changes its sound, as in café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m3)

4) An accent is a small detail that stands out, like an accent colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life everyone has an accent, and accents tell where people grew up; making fun of an accent is unkind. In English lessons, knowing where the accent (stress) falls helps pronunciation: PRE-sent (a gift) and pre-SENT (to show). In music an accent is a note played louder. Phrases: a strong accent, put the accent on, accent mark.

### examples

- She speaks with an Irish accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x1)
- My cousin from Texas has a different accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x2)
- Café has an accent on the e. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x3)
- Everybody has an accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x4)
- The accent is on the first part of «table». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x5)
- He copied the teacher's accent and everyone laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x6)
- The room is white with red accents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x7)
- Learning a new language, you might keep your own accent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x8)
- The accent falls on the second syllable of Ivan, on the first of Popyalof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x9)

### note

Countable. An accent is not the same as a dialect: an accent is only about sounds; a dialect also uses different words and grammar. English rarely uses accent marks, but words borrowed from French or Spanish keep them (café, piñata).

### In the corpora

- [Voice assistants turn sounds into words and then guess what you meant; accents and background noise can confuse them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/5/)
- [Accents shape what we hear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/11/)
- [Rhymes can change with accent: in many northern English accents «cut» and «put» rhyme.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/26/)
- [An accent is the way words sound; any dialect, including Standard English, can be spoken in any accent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/7/)
- [Teasing that hurts and goes on, about looks, bodies, accents or what someone likes, is bullying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «accent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.