ECOUTEZ?

ECOUTEZ ?

1: Imperative of โ€˜ecouterโ€™ which means to listen. So; Listen!
2: The โ€˜vous-vormโ€™ of ecouter. Second person, plural. Vous ecoutez, you (all) are listening/ you (all) listen.

This seems to be very wrong. I am pretty sure it should be with an ร‰. Imperative: (vous) ร‰coutez from the infinitive: ร‰couter.

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Nous รฉcrivons ร‰coutez ou Ecoutez / nous ne mettons pas toujours les accents sur les majuscules

So, it looks like accent marks can be dropped for capital letters (I didnโ€™t know that myself:)

From http://french.about.com/od/pronunciation/a/accents.htm:

It is essential to put accents in their proper places - an incorrect or missing accent is a spelling mistake just as an incorrect or missing letter would be. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ โ€ฆ

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Aha, intรฉressant. Pourquoi vous ne mettez pas toujours les accents sur les majuscules?
Aha, interesting. Why you do not always put accent marks on capital letters?

Nous omettons souvent les accents sur les majuscules car cโ€™est trop contraignant
En effet, il nโ€™y a pas de touches sur le clavier pour ces lettres.
Ce sont des caractรจres spรฉciaux. Voici les codes correspondants
http://lorem-ipsum.studiovitamine.com/caracteres-speciaux,287,fr.html

Par exemple : alt 0201 pour ร‰

Awesome to know. :slight_smile: Thank you everyone.

As MissTake said, the problem is that on our French keyboards itโ€™s impossible to put accents on capital letters, except using special characters. Thatโ€™s why most people leave capital letters unaccented.