l'accent aigu

Ceux de trois syllabes ou plus portent souvent l'accent aigü sur l'avant-dernière syllabe.
Verbs with three or more syllables often have the accute accent on the second last syllable.
Au présent, les verbes de deux syllabes qui appartiennent au groupe 1 portent l'accent grave, alors que tous les autres portent l'accent aigü sur la première syllabe.
In the present tense, group 1 verbs with two syllables all have the grave accent and all others of two syllabels have the accute accent on the first syllable.
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