Modification of capitalA.

• Pronunciation of IPA[aː]:

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a (upper caseA)

1. The first letter of thebasic modern Latin alphabet.

   (superscript)Seeª.

a

1. (IPA,phonetics) anopen front orcentral unrounded vowel.
2. (IPA, superscript⟨ᵃ⟩)[a]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo[a].
3. (international standards) transliterates Indicअ (or equivalent).

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter A):  Áá  Àà  Ââ  Ǎǎ  Ăă  Ãã  Ảả  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ää  Åå  Ḁḁ  Āā  Ąą  ᶏ  Ⱥⱥ  Ȁȁ  Ấấ  Ầầ  Ẫẫ  Ẩẩ  Ậậ  Ắắ  Ằằ  Ẵẵ  Ẳẳ  Ặặ  Ǻǻ  Ǡǡ  Ǟǟ  Ȁȁ  Ȃȃ  Ɑɑ  ᴀ  Ɐɐ  ɒ  ＡａÆæ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  Ꜳꜳ  Ꜵꜵ  Ꜷꜷ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ
• For more variations, seeAppendix:Variations of "a".

•  a on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•  open front unrounded vowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Abbreviation ofatto-, fromDanishatten(“eighteen”).

a

1. atto-, prefix for 10⁻¹⁸ in theInternational System of Units.

FromLatinannum orannus.

a

1. Year as a unit of time, specifically aJulian year or 365.25 days.

Abbreviation ofare, fromFrenchare.

a

1. Anare, a unit of area one hundredth of ahectare; ares.

Abbreviation ofEnglishacceleration.

a

1. (physics)acceleration

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from annuity?”)

a

1. (actuarial notation)Annuity;(specifically)annuity-immediate.

   a_x:n̅| ―n-year annuity-immediate to a person currently age x

   a_x ―life annuity-immediate to a person currently age x

Other representations of A:

• Letter styles
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  Uppercase and lowercase versions ofA, in normal and italic type
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  Uppercase and lowercaseA inFraktur
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  Approximate form of Greek uppercase Α (a, “alpha”), the source of both common variants ofaA inuncial script

The letter name is fromMiddle Englishā, fromOld French, ultimately fromLatinā. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced thefuthorc letterᚪ(a) beginning in the 7th century, and partially alsoᚫ(æ).

• (letter name)
  • (UK,US)IPA^(key):/ˈeɪ/

  • Audio(US):

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  • (General Australian)IPA^(key):/ˈæɪ/
  • (Canada)IPA^(key):[ˈeː]
  • Rhymes:-eɪ

  The current pronunciation resulted from theGreat Vowel Shift. Before the early part of the 17th century, the pronunciation was similar to that in other languages.

• (phoneme)IPA^(key):/æ/,/ɑː/,/eɪ/,/ə/, etc.

a (lowercase,uppercaseA,pluralasora's)

1. The firstletter of the Englishalphabet, written in theLatin script.
   • 1917,John Wesley Young, Frank Millett Morgan,Elementary Mathematical Analysis, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company,page487:

     This expression is zero, for we have replaced the column ofa's by the column ofb's and hence the determinant has two columns identical.

   • 1926,George Kelly,Craig's Wife, Act I, page 5:

     Passmore. Capital P-a-double s-m-o-r-e.

   • 1974, Ervin A. Dennis, John D. Jenkins, “A Font of Type”, inComprehensive Graphic Arts, Indianapolis, I.N.:Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc.,→ISBN,page26, column 2:

     Note that with 18-point type, fifteen capitalA's, twenty-five lowercasea's, and twelve1's are obtained with one font. With this information, it is possible to refer to Table 10-1 which gives the number of characters for each letter, punctuation mark, or figure.

   • 2013, Margaret McPhee,Mistress to the Marquis, Toronto, Ont.:Harlequin Historical,→ISBN,page249:

     Across every sheet of paper were lines and lines of letters of the alphabet. A row ofa's followed by a row of b's and so on, pages of them, like pages from a copy book, crudely formed as if from the hand of a young child.

   • 2014 February 23,Rivka Galchen, “What’s Become of the So-Called Literary Bad Boy?”, inThe New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2014-02-19:

     In the seventh grade I admired a charismatic, witty girl who had a particular way of writing her lowercasea's. After some practice, I took to writing my lowercasea's in the same fashion.

• In English, the lettera usually denotes thenear-open front unrounded vowel (IPA^(key):/æ/), as inpad, theopen back unrounded vowel (IPA^(key):/ɑː/) as infather, themid-central vowel (IPA^(key):/ə/) when unstressed as inabout, or, when followed by another vowel, the diphthongIPA^(key):/eɪ/, as inace.
• A is the third most common letter in English.

• Digraph sequences:ae,ah,ai,au,aw,ay,ea,eau,ia,oa,ua

• (Latin script letters)letter;Aa,Bb,Cc,Dd,Ee,Ff,Gg,Hh,Ii,Jj,Kk,Ll,Mm,Nn,Oo,Pp,Qq,Rr,Ss,Tt,Uu,Vv,Ww,Xx,Yy,Zz

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. Theordinal numberfirst, derived from thisletter of the Englishalphabet, called a and written in theLatin script.

a (plurala'sor(rare)aes)

1. The name of theLatin script letterA /a.
   • 1816,William Young Ottley,An Inquiry Into the Origin and Early History of Engraving […], volume II, London:[…] John and Arthur Arch, […] by J. M'Creery,page621:

     This piece somewhat resembles ana. On the left is a man seated on the ground, with a dog between his legs, and a large bird of prey in his hands, which appears to be biting his head.

   • 1842,Alfred Tennyson, “The Epic”, inPoems. […], volume II, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC,page 2:

     But with some prelude of disparagement, / Read, mouthing out his hollow oes andaes, / Deep-chested music, and to this result.

   • [1906, Leigh H[adley] Irvine, “Abbreviations in General”, inThe Magazine Style Code: A Manual For The Guidance Of Authors, Reporters And All Who Write, San Francisco, C.A.: Crown Publishing Company,pages15–16:

     Letters should be spelled as follows;aes, bees, cees, dees, ees, efs, gees, aitches, ies, jays, kays, els, ems, ens, oes, pees, ques, ars, esses, tees, ues, vees, ws or dubleyuz, exes, wyes, zees.]

   • 1993, Frank Pagden, “Teaching”, inThe Gospel According to St. Lynas, Tunbridge Wells: Mitre,→ISBN,unnumbered page:

     St Lynas was chatting with a group of rebellious young college students one day, who decried the moral standards of the past. ¶ So St Lynas drew an'a' on some paper, and asked them what it was. ¶ 'A' they said.

   • 2023, Amanda Stevens,Secret of Shutter Lake, Toronto, Ont.:Harlequin Intrigue,→ISBN,page237:

     Compare Lydia's signature on some of the work orders with the warning notes. The loop through the lowercasea is similar. See what I mean?

• (Latin-script letter names)letter;a,bee,cee,dee,e,ef,gee,aitch,i,jay,kay,el,em,en,o,pee,cue,ar,ess,tee,u,vee,double-u,ex,wye,zee/zed^{(Category:en:Latin letter names)}

FromMiddle Englisha,an, fromOld Englishān(“one; a; lone; sole”). More atone. The "n" was gradually lost before consonants in almost all dialects by the 15th century. Cognate withAlemannic Germana(“a, an”),East Franconiana(“a, an”).

• (stressed)IPA^(key):/ˈeɪ/
• (unstressed)IPA^(key):/ə/

• Audio(US,stressed form):

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• Audio(US,unstressed form):

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• Rhymes:-eɪ
• Homophone:her(non-rhotic,unstressed form)

a

1. An unspecified example of (something);theindefinite article.[from before 1150]^[1]

   There wasa man here looking for you yesterday.

   • 1835,[Washington Irving], chapter XX, inA Tour on the Prairies (The Crayon Miscellany;no. 1), Philadelphia, Pa.:[Henry Charles] Carey,[Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard,→OCLC,page151:

     He had another formidable difficulty in getting him across the river, where both horses stuck fora time in the mire, and Beatte was nearly unseated from his saddle by the force of the current and the struggles of his captive.

   • 1859 December 13,Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor,The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number ofAll the Year Round […], volume II, London:[…] C[harles] Whiting, […],→OCLC,page 6, column 1:

     The young man thanked me, and took his leave with some little precipitation, after declininga glass of liquor.

   • 1868 January 4 – June 6,[William] Wilkie Collins, “(please specify the page) [Fourth Narrative. Extracted from the Journal of Ezra Jennings.]”, inThe Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume III, London:Tinsley Brothers, […], published1868,→OCLC,page185:

     Speaking asa servant, I am deeply indebted to you. Speaking asa man, I consider you to bea person whose head is full of maggots, and I take up my testimony against your experiment asa delusion and a snare.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, “Preface”, inThe Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page vii:

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied;a herbarium packet gives one onlya small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

   • 2005, Emily Kingsley (lyricist), Kevin Clash (voice actor), “A Cookie is a Sometime Food”,Sesame Street, season 36, Sesame Workshop:

     Hoots the Owl: Yes a, fruit, isa^[sic], any, time, food!

   • 2016,VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Anna, do you have a pen? — Yes. I have a pen in my bag. I havea (stressed) …

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   • 2023 March 9, Moya Lothian-Mclean, “A nose ring, a bicycle, a Radiohead album: I'm becoming a total cliche – and I quite like it”, inKatharine Viner, editor,The Guardian‎^[3], London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2024-05-11:

     In retrospect, I realise, I had been unconsciously devotinga large amount of energy to negative choice, a concept I'm borrowing and adapting from sociologist Eva Illouz's 2019 treatise, The End of Love (by way ofa viral Paris Review essay).

   • 2024 May 21, Sarah Larson, “When the C.I.A. Turned Writers Into Operatives”, inThe New Yorker‎^[4], New York, N.Y.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2024-05-21:

     The C.I.A. infiltrated not just magazines, radio, and movies but youth organizations and movements like Abstract Expressionism; all were meant to inspirea reverence for democracy and freedom,a project that, in Walker's telling, often tips into absurdity.

2. One;used beforescore,dozen,hundred,thousand,million, etc.

   I've seen it happena hundred times.

   • 1945,Peter Cheyney,Sinister Errand, London:Collins, published1952,page 8:

     Everybody drinks a lot in wartime, but it seemed to me that I must have drunk enough to floata couple of battleships.

   • 1999, Sara Hylton,Separate Lives, London:Piatkus,→ISBN,page93:

     You've seen ita dozen times already.

   • 2024 February 27, “The economics of skiing in America”, inThe Economist‎^[5], London:The Economist Group,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on8 May 2024:

     By the time he gets onto a chair, the pristine powder snow below the lift has already been chopped up bya hundred tracks, and the line to get back up stretches the length of a football field.

3. Used in some phrases denoting quantity, such asa few,a good many, acouple,a little,a bit, etc.

   He'sa bit thick, isn't he?

   They asked mea few questions.

   • 1869,Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “My Lord and Lady”, inLittle Women: […], part second, Boston, Mass.:Roberts Brothers,→OCLC,page315:

     But I was going to say, that while I was dawdling about abroad, I sawa good many talented young fellows making all sorts of sacrifices, and enduring real hardships, that they might realize their dreams. Splendid fellows, some of them, working like heroes, poor and friendless, but so full of courage, patience and ambition, that I was ashamed of myself, and longed to give them a right good lift.

   • 1989, Robert T. Michael,Heidi I[rmgard] Hartmann, Brigid O'Farrell, editors,Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries, Washington, D.C.:National Academy Press,→ISBN,page 3, column 2:

     The main influence here is job tenure—the men had been at their specific jobsa good while longer than the women.

   • 2024 February 13, René M. van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra, Michael Kliphuis, “If the Atlantic Ocean Loses Circulation, What Happens Next?”, inScientific American‎^[6], New York, N.Y.:Springer Nature America, Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on13 February 2024:

     Twenty years after the movie's release, we knowa lot more about the Atlantic Ocean's circulation. Instruments deployed in the ocean starting in 2004 show that the Atlantic Ocean circulation has observably slowed over the past two decades, possibly to its weakest state in almost a millennium.

   1. Used before anumeral.

      There area few hundred orders that need to be fulfilled by tomorrow.

      • 1934,Alan Villiers,Whalers of the Midnight Sun: […], New York, N.Y., London:Charles Scribner's Sons,page154:

        The blues were eating leisurely, swimming about and opening their great mouths, spouting and filling their enormous stomachs with intense satisfaction. They had no idea of danger. There must have been about fifteen of them, peacefully feeding. One of them, its belly gorged probably witha few trillion plankton, seemed to be lying asleep on the surface.

      • 2020 July 31, Brian Friedberg, “The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy”, inWired‎^[7], San Francisco, Calif.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2024-05-15:

        The impact of hidden virality can't be stopped by retroactively banninga few thousand Twitter accounts; it is an iterative, memetic phenomenon that outpaces terms of service.

      • 2023,Don Winslow,City of Dreams, London:HarperCollins Publishers,→ISBN,page332:

        That was on the first day's walk. It took him until day three, aftera good ten miles, to ask her out.

4. Used in some adverbial phrases denoting the degree or extent of anaction, such asa little,a bit,a lot, etc.

   The door was openeda little.

   • 1978, Deane H. Shapiro, Jr.,Precision Nirvana, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice Hall, Inc.,→ISBN,page104:

     If, for example, you ask a child what he likes to do, he may say he doesn't know. However, if you watch him during free time, and note that he plays basketballa lot, you may infer that this is a high-probability behavior, and he finds it reinforcing.

   • 2009, James H. S. McGregor,Paris From the Ground Up, Cambridge, M.A., London:Belknap Press,→ISBN,page163:

     The bridge was shifteda bit to the east and rebuilt, this time with the shops of money-changers along both sides.

   • 2023 January 13, Dana G. Smith, “Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health, Research Shows”, inThe New York Times‎^[8], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2024-05-10:

     You don't need to go cold turkey to help your health. Even reducinga little bit can be beneficial, especially if you currently drink over the recommended limits.

5. The same;one and the same.Used in phrases such asof a kind,birds of a feather, etc.

   We are ofa mind on matters of morals.

   They're two ofa kind.

6. Any;every;used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope.^[2]

   A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.

7. Any;used with a negative to indicate not a single one.^[3]

   It was so dark that we couldn't seea thing.

   He fell all that way, and hasn'ta bump on his head?

   • 2001,Stephen Lawhead,The Mystic Rose Book (Celtic Crusades; III), London, […]:BCA,page180:

     No, it is impossible. My conscience would give me nota moment's peace if I let you go. I would never forgive myself.

   • 2014, Sherry D. Ficklin,Queen of Someday: A Stolen Empire Novel,[Colony, T.X.]: Clean Teen Publishing,→ISBN,page116:

     When had my own feelings become so muddled and complicated? Before I takea single step, he catches my arm, turning me to him.

   • 2016, Daphna Rabinovitch, “Fudge Truffle Tart”, inThe Baker in Me, Vancouver, B.C.:Whitecap Books,→ISBN,page204:

     My friend Cindy's husband, Michael Zahavi, a true chocoholic if there ever was one, adores this tart. In fact, when I visited their cottage up in Muskoka, Ontario one summer and brought this along as a treat, he got up in the middle of the night to nosh away at it, leaving us sleepyheads with narya crumb the next day.

8. Used before an adjective that modifies a noun (singular or plural) delimited by a numeral.

   The lottery jackpot is wortha staggering three hundred million dollars.

   The holidays area mere one week away.

9. One; someone named;used before a person's name, suggesting that the speaker knows little about the person other than the name.^[4]

   We've received an interesting letter froma Mrs. Miggins of London.

10. Used before an adjective modifying a person's name, typically used to emphasize that person's current condition or emotional state.
    • 1963, Robert Hancock,Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman To Be Hanged, London:Orion, published1993,→ISBN,page35:

      At Waterloo she asked George for £5 and said that she would go home by tube, anda relieved George watched her descend the Underground steps.

    • 2016, David J. Bailey,The Storm, London:Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.,→ISBN,page147:

      "There, I think that's done it," declareda triumphant John, "we just need to try it with the bar now, where is it?"

    • 2018, “Rwandan court drops all charges against opposition figure”, inAssociated Press:

      "I will continue my campaign to fight for the rights of all Rwandans,"a surprised but happy Rwigara told reporters after celebrating.

11. Someone or something like; similar to;used before aproper noun to create an example out of it.^[3]

    The center of the village was becominga Times Square.

    The man isa regular Romeo.

    • 1987, Frederic V. Grunfeld,Rodin: A Biography, New York, N.Y.:Henry Holt and Company,→ISBN,page88:

      [Jules] Pécher actually sculpteda sort of Statue of Liberty for the centerpiece of the monument, but for the rest he thought it advisable to call in Van Rasbourgh, and Rodin thus became a ghost sculptor to a ghost sculptor.

    • 2009, Ed Macy,Hellfire, London:Harper Press,→ISBN,page134:

      Billy fancied himself as a bit ofa Han Solo, but he shook his head. 'Stop being a wuss.' He grinned. 'Your go.'

    • 2020, Laura Erickson,The Love Lives of Birds: Courting and Mating Rituals, North Adams, M.A.:Storey Publishing,→ISBN,page81:

      For the first 5 or 6 days after the eggs hatch, the mother spends most of her time keeping the chicks warm while the father provides most of their meals. All that work may be what prompts the female to leave the family. They share feeding duties more equally during the next week or 10 days, until the young leave the nest. Producing a second batch is easier if she skips the last grueling week or two of provisioning fledglings. She can recharge her batteries by moseying off and, while on vacation, looking fora new Casanova.

• In standard English, the articlea is used before consonant sounds, whilean is used before vowel sounds; for more, seethe usage notes about an.

• FromMiddle Englisha,o, fromOld Englisha-,an,on.
• Unstressed form ofon.

• IPA^(key):/ə/

a

1. To do with separation; In, into.[from before 1150]^[1]

   torna pieces

2. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.Often occurs between two nouns, where the first noun occurs at the end of a verbal phrase.[from before 1150]^[1]

   I brush my teeth twicea day.

   • c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene v]:

     A Sundays

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, inVoice of America‎^[9], archived fromthe original on7 February 2019:

     Patent requests for machine learning activities grew on average by 28 percenta year between 2013 and 2016, the study found.

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3. To do with status; In.[from before 1150]^[1]
   • King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)

     To set the peoplea worke.

4. (archaic)To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.[from before 1150]^[1]

   standa tiptoe

5. (archaic)To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.[from before 1150]^[1]
   • 1964,Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are a-Changin'”:

     The times, they area-changin'.

6. (archaic)To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.[16th c.]^[1]
   • c.1608–1609 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene ii]:

     It wasa doing.

   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Hebrews11:21:

     Jacob, when he wasa dying

7. (archaic)To do with an action/movement; To, into.[16th c.]^[1]
8. (obsolete)To do with method; In, with.[from before 1150]^[1]
   • c.1589–1590 (date written),Christopher Marlo[we], edited byTho[mas] Heywood,The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London:[…] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published1633,→OCLC,(please specify the page):

     Stands herea purpose.

9. (obsolete)To do with role or capacity; In.[from before 1150]^[1]

   a God’s name

• (position, direction): Can also be attached without a hyphen, asaback,ahorse,afoot. Seea-
• (separation): Can also be attached without hyphen, asasunder. Seea-
• (status): Can also be attached without hyphen, asafloat,awake. Seea-.
• (process): Can also be attached with or without hyphen, asa-changing

• on
• a-

FromMiddle Englisha,ha contraction ofhave, orhaven.

• 'a,'a',ha,ha'

• IPA^(key):/ə/

a

2. (dialectal orslang)Have(auxiliary verb).

   I'da come, if you'da asked.

   • c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shake-speare,The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London:[…] [Valentine Simmes] forN[icholas] L[ing] andIohn Trundell, published1603,→OCLC, [Act IV, scene v],signature H2, recto:

     So would Ia done, by yonder Sunne, / If thou hadſt not come to my bed.

   • 1863 May 22 –1863 June 26,L[ouisa] M[ay] Alcott, “A Day”, inHospital Sketches, Boston, Mass.:James Redpath, […], published August 1863,→OCLC,page36:

     "Well, I reckon it did, marm, for that shot woulda gone a couple a inches deeper but for my old mammy's camphor bag," answered the cheerful philosopher.

   • 1884 December 10,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London:Chatto & Windus, […],→OCLC,page54:

     He dropped below me, with the current, and by-and-by he come a-swinging up shore in the easy water, and he went by so close I coulda reached out the gun and touched him.

   • [1886, Robert Hollan, “A,prep.”, inA Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester (English Dialect Society; XVI), London:Trübner & Co.:

     Oi'da gen im a clout, if oi'd been theer.]

   • 1964,John Ehle,The Land Breakers, New York, N.Y. […]:Harper & Row, Publishers,page53:

     They live in the river bottom. Don't you know a thing? I thought you musta seen them, since they was here all winter, cutting at the woods and burning brush.

   • 2013,William Brodrick,The Discourtesy of Death, London:Little, Brown,→ISBN,page247:

     'I never told him, pleaded Liam. 'If I 'ada done, he'da taken the rifles, wouldn't he? Thing is, I wanted to fire a gun for real. See what it felt like. So I just borrowed it and went out on me own to have a go. But I didn't get the chance because I came across a patrol and I panicked and chucked the thing in a bin.'

3. (dialectal orslang,rare)had(auxiliary verb).
   • 1887 October,Octave Thanet[pseudonym; Alice French], “The Mortgage on Jeffy”, inScribner's Magazine, volume II, number 4, New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner's Sons,→ISSN,→OCLC,page478, column 1:

     I wisht youa seen 'im; fust he looked mighty gubious; then he begins ter laff. He'll git likened ter ridin' mighty briefly."

• Now often attached to a preceding auxiliary verb. See-a.

FromMiddle Englisha, a reduced form ofhe(“he”)/ha(“he”),heo(“she”)/ha(“she”),ha(“it”), andhie, hie(“they”).

• 'a

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ʌ/
• (it):(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ʌ/,/ɑ/
• Rhymes:-ʌ,-ɑ

a

1. (obsolete outsideEngland andScotlanddialects)He,she,they: thethird-personsingular or pluralnominative.^[4]
   • 1855, Kingsley,W. Ho!, page 120 (edition of 1889):

     He've a got a great venture on hand, but whata [it] be he tell'th no man.

   • 1864, Tennyson,N. Farmer, Old Style, st. 2:

     Doctors, they knaws nowt, fura [they] says what's nawways true.

   1. (obsolete outsideEngland andScotlanddialects)He, thethird-personsingularnominative.
      • 1598–1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene ii]:

        a’ brushes his hat o’ mornings.

      • 1795, Peter Pindar,The Royal Visit to Exeter, a Political Epistle: by John Ploughshare ... published by Peter Pindar, Esq, page 5:

        Well! in a come [in he came]—KING GEORGE to town, / With doust and zweat az netmeg brown, / The hosses all in smoke;

      • 1860, Kite,Sng. Sol., ii, 16:

        A do veed amang th' lilies.

      • 1864, Tennyson,N. Farmer, Old Style, st. 7, version of1917, Raymond Macdonald Alden,Alfred Tennyson, how to Know Him, page 226:

        "The amoighty's a taakin' o' you to 'issén, my friend,"a said,[…]

      • 1922,E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison,The Worm Ouroboros‎^[10], London: Jonathan Cape,page 8:

        And, by your leave, for all the marvellous rich and sumptuous coata weareth, he is very like a false jewel in a rich casing.

   2. (obsolete outsideEngland andScotlanddialects)She, thethird-personsingularnominative.
      • 1790, Grose,MS. add. (M.):

        A wanted me to go with her.

      • 1876, Bound,Prov.:

        Dida do it!

      • 1883, Hardy,Tover, page 124 (edition of 1895):

        A's getting wambling on her pins [shaky on her legs].

FromMiddle Englishof, withapocope of the finalf andvowel reduction.

• o',o

• (UK,US)IPA^(key):/ə/

a

2. (archaic orslang)Of.

   The name of Johna Gaunt.

   • c.1597 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:

     What timea day is it?

   • 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e.,Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, inThe Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London:[…]Will[iam] Stansby, published1616,→OCLC,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     It’s sixa clock.

   • 1931,A. P. Carter, "When I'm Gone"^[11]:

     Two bottles 'a whiskey for the way

   • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page152:

     Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass offa me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.

• Often attached without a hyphen to preceding word.

From NorthernMiddle Englishaw, alteration ofall.

• a'

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ɔ/
• Rhymes:-ɔ

a (notcomparable)

1. (chieflyScotland)All.[from ca. 1350—1470]

a (notcomparable)

1. (chieflyScotland)All.[from ca. 1350—1470]

• 'a

a

2. Pronunciation spelling ofto.
   • 1923 January, “The Sunshine of Childhood (Contributed)”, in Benedict Brown, editor,The Grail, volume 4, number 9, St. Meinrad, Ind.:The Abbey Press,page284, column 2:

     James was going with his mother to attend the ceremonies at which his oldest sister in the convent would make perpetual vows. Being asked where he was going, he answered, “I’m goin’a see my sister make percapital vowels.”

   • 2007,BK Loren, “Got Tape?”, inBarry Lopez, editor,The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, Minneapolis, Minn.:Milkweed Editions,→ISBN,page43:

     The man walks toward me. “I met that asshole. He’s tryin’a sell us a bag a bullshit.”

   • 2012 October 23,Tom Wolfe,Back to Blood: A Novel, Large Print edition, New York, N.Y.:Little, Brown and Company,→ISBN,page66:

     Don’tcha try deny it, / ’Cause Hose knows you dyin’a try it—[…] Knows you out tryin’a buy it, / But Hose only gives it free

Contraction ofgonna, itself a reduction ofgoing to; see Etymology 8 above (“to”).

a

1. (African-American Vernacular)Used to express a future action;going to.

   I'ma go see what's going on out there.

   • 2010,Todd Bridges,Killing Willis: FromDiff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted, New York, N.Y.:Touchstone Books,→ISBN,page146:

     "Sure, Billy, I'ma run downstairs to the machine and get me a pack ofbigarettes," he said, taking off with his Melody.

   • 2012, Bertrand E. Brown,Sylvia's Dilemma: A Novel,→ISBN,page95:

     Ain't nothin' in the house to eat and now that we has Mr. Alex staying with us a few days I'ma need to buy some groceries so yous two can have the house to yo'self 'til I get back.

   • 2018, Monica Jeremie,Married to a Dade County Bully 2, Urban Chapters Publications,→ISBN,page85:

     I'ma head out there now and take a look.

   • 2021, Ioan Grillo,Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, New York, N.Y. […]:Bloomsbury Publishing,→ISBN,page141:

     "The Glock 26 and the motherfucking, uh, the Hi-Point. I'ma try to get the both of them," another said.

• Mainly used in the phraseI'm a, which is usually spelledImma.

Contraction ofand.^[5]

a

1. (obsolete,dialectal,rare)Contraction ofand.
   • 1655, William Barton,Man's Monitor, or, the Free-school of Virtue; Holding Forth the Duties Required and Sins Forbidden in the Two Tables of the Law., London: W.D. for T. Underhill,unnumbered page; republished inEarly English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:Text Creation Partnership,p.2011:

     By cocka pie and Mous-footDent bring's in, / Examples to express forbidden Sin:

   • 1746, “Exmoor Scolding:Or, a DevonſhireDialogue:”, inThe Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XVI, London:Edw. Cave,→ISSN,→OCLC,page353, column 2:

     Thee lace ma? Chem a laced well-a-fine aready.—Zey wone word more, and chell breſh tha, chell make thy boddize pilmee.

   • 1823,Edward Moor,Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of that County, London: J. Loder,page 2:

     4. asif. "I'll gi ye a dunt i' the hid'a ye dew so no more." This is equivalent to the "an if" of some of our old writers.

• TheOxford English Dictionary notes: "The form is not common in any period, and some of the earlier examples could instead show a transmission error foran in its abbreviated form (i.e. ā, with mark of suspension)."^[5]

a

1. Distance from leading edge to aerodynamic center.
2. specific absorption coefficient
3. (chemistry)specific rotation
4. (genetics)allele (recessive)

a

1. (crosswording)across

   Do you have the answer for 23a?

2. (chieflyUS)Alternative spelling ofa.m.(“ante meridiem”)oram

a

1. Alternative form of-a(“empty syllable added to songs, poetry, verse and other speech”)
   • 2001, Louis F. Newcomb,Car Salesman: A Legacy, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 91:

     “I showa you righta here I can fucka you.” “Is she crazy?” I asked Wyman.

Borrowed fromRussianа(a).

a

1. The name of theCyrillic script letterА /а.

a

1. ah;er(sound of hesitation)
   • 1847 January –1848 July,William Makepeace Thackeray,Vanity Fair […], London:Bradbury and Evans […], published1848,→OCLC:

     "We will resume yesterday's discourse, young ladies," said he, "and you shall each read a page by turns; so that Missa—Miss Short may have an opportunity of hearing you"; and the poor girls began to spell a long dismal sermon delivered at Bethesda Chapel, Liverpool, on behalf of the mission for the Chickasaw Indians.

Abbreviations.

1. (Stenoscript) a word-initial letter ⟨a⟩.
2. (Stenoscript) the long vowel /eɪ/ at the end of a word, or before a final consonant that is not /dʒ, v, z/. (Note: the final consonant is not written; [ɛə˞] counts as /eɪr/.)

   Thus the worda, plus its inflectionan.

3. (Stenoscript) the worda.m.
4. (Stenoscript) the prefixad-.

Additional quotations for any terms on this page may be found atCitations:a.

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “a”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 1.
• Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN)
• “a” in Christine A. Lindberg, editor,The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, 2002,→ISBN, page 1.
• “a,adj.”, inOED Online ⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press,2023.

• “a”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• “a”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

IPA^(key):/a/

a

1. house

• IPA^(key):/ˈʌ/

á

1. this,these (masculine)

SeeTemplate:aa-demonstrative determiners.

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “a”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[12], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• According to Orel, the particle and conjunction are etymologically identical. FromProto-Albanian*a and cognate toAncient Greekἦ(ê,“indeed”).^[1]

• FromProto-Albanian*(h)au, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂eu-(“that”). Cognate toAncient Greekαὖ(aû,“on the other hand, again”). A proclitic disjunctive particle, used with one or more parts of the sentence.

• ha (archaic,Buzuku)^[2]

• IPA^(key):/a/

a

1. or
2. there

FromProto-Albanian*(h)an, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂en(“there”). Cognate withLatinan(“yes, perhaps”). Interrogative particle, usually used proclitically in simple sentences.

• IPA^(key):/a/

a

1. probably,perhaps
2. whether

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The first letter of the StandardAlbanian Latin-script alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters)shkronjë;Aa,Bb,Cc,Çç,Dd,Dhdh,Ee,Ëë,Ff,Gg,Gjgj,Hh,Ii,Jj,Kk,Ll,Llll,Mm,Nn,Njnj,Oo,Pp,Qq,Rr,Rrrr,Ss,Shsh,Tt,Thth,Uu,Vv,Xx,Xhxh,Yy,Zz,Zhzh

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[13],1980
• “a”, inFGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian),2006

• IPA^(key):/ãː/

a

1. tree

a

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) topull

• Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 184

FromLatinilla.

a f sg

1. the

   a luenga aragonesa ―the Aragonese language

FromLatinad.

• IPA^(key):/a/[a]

a

1. to,towards

• al

a f sg (masculineil,neuteru,masculine pluralus,feminine pluralas)

1. (A Estierna)Alternative form ofla

a f

1. a (the name of the letter A, a)

• IPA^(key):(phoneme)/ɑ/,(letter name)[ɑː]

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The firstletter of the Azerbaijanialphabet, written in theLatin script.

a (definite accusativeanı,pluralalar)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterA/a.

• SeeTemplate:list:Latin script letters/az.
• SeeTemplate:list:Latin script letter names/az.

• IPA^(key):[ɑː]

a

1. ah,oh(indicates surprise)

   A, doğrudan? ―Oh, really?

• “a” inObastan.com.

a

1. the (definite article).

a

1. ah (expression of surprise)
2. eh (expression of reluctance)

a

1. they,them (plural)
2. he,she,they (singular)

• (they):u

• IPA^(key):/a/,[a]

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The firstletter of the Basquealphabet, written in theLatin script.

• see other Basque letters

a (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letterA.

• see other Basque letter names

Cognate withGermanein,eine,Yiddishאַ(a),אַן(an).

• IPA^(key):/ɐ/

a

1. a

SeeTemplate:bar-decl-articles.

• oa(“one”,determiner)

Unstressed form ofea

• IPA^(key):/ɐ/

a

1. he

SeeTemplate:bar-decl-personal_pronouns.

Cognate withGermanauch.

a

1. Alternative form ofaa:also,too,as well

a

1. of

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007),Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 19.

• IPA^(key):/a/
• Rhymes:-a

a

1. in

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

FromProto-Brythonic*a, fromProto-Celtic*au, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ew.

• IPA^(key):/a/

a(triggers soft mutation)

1. from(expresses origin)

   tuda Vrest ―peoplefrom Brest

2. of(indicates an amount)

   un tamm brava gig ―a nice pieceof meat

3. of(expresses a quality)

   ur plac’ha enor ―a girlof honour

4. after certain adjectives or adverbs expressing quantity

   ur voutailh leuna sistr ―a bottle fullof cider

5. after ordinal numbers with a plural noun

   tria vugale ―three children

6. used in negative sentences with the grammatical object

   nʼem eus ket kena vutun ―I donʼt have any more tobacco

7. before the infinitive after certain verbs likepaouez,mirout,diwall,c'hwitañ

   paouezet eo ar glava gouezhañ ―it has stopped raining [lit. the rain has stopped falling]

8. after substantivized adjectives used as nouns

   ur vrava blacʼh ―a pretty girl

9. combined with a personal pronoun

   gwelet em boaacʼhanout ―I saw you

   an den a gomzananezhañ ―the man Iʼm talking about

• IPA^(key):/a/

a(triggers soft mutation)

1. preverbal particle used when
   1. the subject precedes the verb

      ar mora zo glas ―the sea is blue

   2. the object precedes the verb

      an den-sea glevan ―I hear that man

a(triggers soft mutation)

1. (relative) that, which, who(used in 'direct' relative clauses, i.e. where the pronoun refers to the subject or the direct object of an inflected verb)

   an hinia garan ―the onewhom I love

a

1. Alternative spelling ofI(“1st person singular subject personal pronoun”)

• IPA^(key):/a/
• Rhymes:-a

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The firstletter of the Catalanalphabet, written in theLatin script.

• no saber ni la a

• see other Catalan letters

FromLatinad.

• (Eastern)IPA^(key):/ə/
• (Western)IPA^(key):/a/

a

1. in,at; indicating a particular time or place

   Sóca Barcelona.

   I amin Barcelona.

2. to; indicating movement towards a particular place

   Vaiga Barcelona.

   I'm goingto Barcelona.

3. to; indicating a target or indirect object

   Escric una cartaa la meva àvia.

   I'm writing my grandmother a letter.

4. per
5. by

   diaa dia.

   day by day.

• When the prepositiona is followed by a masculine definite article,el orels, it is contracted with it to the formsal andals respectively. Ifel would be elided to the forml’ because it is before a word beginning with a vowel, the elision toal’ takes precedence over contracting toal.

The same occurs with thesalat articlees, to formas except wherees would be elided tos’.

• al
• als
• as
• cap a
• per a

• IPA^(key):/a/

a (upper caseA)

1. A letter of theMazahua alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters)A a,Ⱥ ⱥ,A̱ a̱,B b,C c,Cꞌ cꞌ,Cj cj,Cu cu,Cꞌu cꞌu,Cju cju,Ch ch,Chꞌ chꞌ,Chj chj,D d,Dy dy,E e,Ɇ ɇ,E̱ e̱,G g,Gu gu,Hu hu,ꞌHu ꞌhu,I i,I̱ i̱,J j,Jꞌ jꞌ,Jm jm,Jn jn,Jñ jñ,Ju ju,Jy jy,L l,M m,Mꞌ mꞌ,N n,Nꞌ nꞌ,Ñ ñ,Ñꞌ ñꞌ,O o,Ø ø,O̱ o̱,P p,Pj pj,R r,S s,T t,Tꞌ tꞌ,Tj tj,Ts ts,Tsꞌ tsꞌ,Tsj tsj,U u,Ꞹ ꞹ,U̱ u̱,X x,Z z,Zh zh,ꞌ

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

a

1. or

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974)Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;18)‎^[14] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: ElInstituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con laSecretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, pages3, 110

• IPA^(key):/a/

a

1. openmouth
2. smell,taste

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

a

1. yes

• IPA^(key):/ɑ/

a

1. he
2. she
3. it

a

1. heis
2. she is
3. it is

SeeTemplate:chk-tense chart.

• an(Sette Comuni)

FromMiddle High Germanein, fromOld High Germanein, fromProto-West Germanic*ain.

a (oblique masculinean)

1. (Luserna)a,an

   Maria iza lavròunaren. ―Maria isa Lavaronese.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013)Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

a

1. water

a

1. outside
2. out of view (from thespeaker)
3. entering ashallowdomain; entering a domain in ashallow orrestrictedmanner

   atyásuuna káasu hece

   The water is pouringinto the (shallow) pan.

• u(“inside; within view”)

• Eugene Casad, Ronald Langacker (1985) “'Inside' and 'outside' in Cora grammar”, inInternational Journal of American Linguistics

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key):/aː/

a

1. ah

CompareWelsha

• IPA^(key):/a/

a (triggers soft mutation)

1. Inserted before the verb when a subject or direct object precedes the verb

FromProto-Brythonic*a, fromProto-Celtic*au, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ew.

• IPA^(key):/a/

a (triggers soft mutation)

1. of (expressing separation, origin, composition/substance or a quality)
2. of (between a preceding large number and a following plural noun to express quantity)
3. from (indicating provenance)

From the earlierla.

• IPA^(key):/ˈa/
• Homophones:à,hà

a f (masculineu,masculine plurali,feminine plurale)

1. the(feminine)

• Before a vowel,a turns intol'

a f

1. her,it(direct object)

• Before a vowel,a turns intol'

SeeTemplate:co-personal pronouns.

• “a” inINFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Inherited fromOld Czecha, fromProto-Slavic*a, fromProto-Balto-Slavic*ō.

• IPA^(key):[ˈa]

• Audio:

  (file)

a

1. and

• “a”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “a”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

IPA^(key):/a/

a (uppercaseA)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out andadd a translation, then remove the text{{rfdef}}.

• SeeTemplate:list:Latin script letters/dak.

FromLatinad.

a

1. to
2. at

• IPA^(key):/æː/,[ˈæːˀ]
• Rhymes:-æː

• Audio(Copenhagen):

  (file)

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The firstletter of the Danishalphabet, written in theLatin script.

• see other Danish letters

• IPA^(key):/æː/,[ˈæːˀ]
• Rhymes:-æː

• Audio(Copenhagen):

  (file)

a n (singular definitea'et,plural indefinitea'er)

1. The name of the letterA ora.

• à(unofficial but common)

• IPA^(key):/a/,[ˈaˀ]
• Rhymes:-a,-æː

• Audio(Copenhagen):

  (file)

a

1. of, of...each, eachcontaining
2. at
3. to,or

• IPA^(key):/æː/,[ˈæːˀ]
• Rhymes:-æː

• Audio(Copenhagen):

  (file)

a

1. imperative ofae

• (letter name):IPA^(key):/aː/

• Audio:

  (file)

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The firstletter of the Dutchalphabet, written in theLatin script.

• (Latin script letters)letter;Aa,Bb,Cc,Dd,Ee,Ff,Gg,Hh,Ii,Jj,Kk,Ll,Mm,Nn,Oo,Pp,Qq,Rr,Ss,Tt,Uu,Vv,Ww,Xx,Yy,Zz

FromMiddle Dutchâ, fromOld Dutchā, fromProto-Germanic*ahwō.

• aa(especially in names)
• ie

a f (plurala's,diminutiveaatje)

2. (archaic) astream orwater

• Aa
• eiland

•  Aa (waternaam) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia^nl

a

1. (Brabant,dialectal)Alternative form ofu(“you”,objective or reflexive pronoun)

a

1. (Brabant,dialectal)Alternative form ofuw(“your”)

The masculine singular form of the possessive pronoun isawe.

a

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration ofꜥ.

FromLatinego(“I”).

• IPA^(key):/ɐ/
• Hyphenation:a

a (personal, nominative case)

1. I
2. we
3. you (plural)

• Becomesaj- before a vowel (proclitic).
• Becomes-ja when acting as an enclitic.

SeeTemplate:Emilian personal pronouns.

• (letter name):IPA^(key):/a/
• (phoneme):IPA^(key):/a/

• Audio:

  (file)

a (lower case,upper caseA)

1. The firstletter of the Esperantoalphabet, written in theLatin script.

• SeeTemplate:list:Latin script letters/eo.

a (accusative singulara-on,plurala-oj,accusative plurala-ojn)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterA/a.

• SeeTemplate:list:Latin script letter names/eo.

• (letter name,aa):IPA^(key):/ˈɑː/
• (phoneme):IPA^(key):/ɑ/

a (lower case,upper caseA)