Stress
and Accentuation Marks
(Acento
e Signi de Acento)
The stress in Venetan may fall on the ultimate, penultimate or antepenultimate
syllable or on the fourth syllable from the last.
An
accentuation mark is written:
-
on
the penultimate position is written only on close ó, close é:
tóxo, toco, conposto, sóto, soto,
sóra, sora, méso, mexo, fiaco,
inbriago, scuro, inpuro, produtivo, linea,
aria, serio, segretaria, porte
la, fradelo...
-
in
all other cases: àsido, ùmido, pòrtego,
móstrame, mostràndome
lo, pènsaghe,
strénxelo, statìstico, parò,
parché, gavéa, sarìa, finìo,
partìi, ciapài, vegnùe, segretarìa...
-
verbs
with accentuation mark retain it even in derived voices: te cantarè
=> cantarèto? , mostrè => mostrème! mostrè
la!, portè
=> portèla!...
An
accentuation mark is not written:
-
on
words ending in consonant: paron (=parón), saver (=savér),
vocal
(=vocàl);
-
on
some very frequent words: come (=cóme), questo (=quésto),
quelo
(=quélo), mentre (=méntre), invese (=invése),
'ndo (='ndó)...
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