Was (wer) ist a - definition

LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET

A diaeresis; A:; A umlaut; A with diaeresis (Latin); Auml; A"; Ǟ; German a; Latin a; Umlauted A; Umlaut A; A with umlaut; U+00C4; U+00E4

FIRST LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET

Ａ; The Letter A; A (letter); LetterA; User:Liangent/rd; User:Liangent~zhwiki/rd; ASCII 65; U+0041; ASCII 97; \x41; U+0061; Letter A; Ꞻ; Single-storey a; Single-story a; Double-story a; Double-storey a; Lowercase a; Letter a; ꞻ

or an

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

Note: 'A' or 'an' is the indefinite article. It is used at the beginning of noun groups which refer to only one person or thing. The form 'an' is used in front of words that begin with vowel sounds.

You use a or an when you are referring to someone or something for the first time or when people may not know which particular person or thing you are talking about.

A waiter entered with a tray...

He started eating an apple...

Today you've got a new teacher taking you...

I manage a hotel.

DET: DET sing-n

You use a or an when you are referring to any person or thing of a particular type and do not want to be specific.

I suggest you leave it to an expert...

Bring a sleeping bag...

I was waiting for a bus.

DET: DET sing-n

You use a or an in front of an uncount noun when that noun follows an adjective, or when the noun is followed by words that describe it more fully.

There was a terrible sadness in her eyes...

DET: DET n-uncount with supp

You use a or an in front of a mass noun when you want to refer to a single type or make of something.

Bollinger 'RD' is a rare, highly prized wine.

DET: DET n-mass

You use a in quantifiers such as a lot, a little, and a bit.

I spend a lot on expensive jewelry and clothing...

I've come looking for a bit of advice.

DET: DET in quant

You use a or an to refer to someone or something as a typical member of a group, class, or type.

Some parents believe a boy must learn to stand up and fight like a man.

DET: DET sing-n

You use a or an in front of the names of days, months, or festivals when you are referring to one particular instance of that day, month, or festival.

The interview took place on a Friday afternoon...

DET: DET sing-n

You use a or an when you are saying what someone is or what job they have.

I explained that I was an artist...

He was now a teacher and a respectable member of the community.

DET: DET sing-n

You use a or an in front of the names of artists to refer to one individual painting or sculpture created by them.

Most people have very little difficulty in seeing why a Van Gogh is a work of genius.

DET: DET n-proper

10.

You use a or an instead of the number 'one', especially with words of measurement such as 'hundred', 'hour', and 'metre', and with fractions such as 'half', 'quarter', and 'third'.

...more than a thousand acres of land.

...a quarter of an hour...

DET: DET sing-n

11.

You use a or an in expressions such as eight hours a day to express a rate or ratio.

Prices start at ?13.95 a metre for printed cotton...

The helicopter can zip along at about 150 kilometres an hour.

DET: num DET sing-n

FIRST LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET

·- Of.

II. A ·prep In; on; at; by.

III. A ·- An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter.

IV. A ·- A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they.

V. A ·- An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

VI. A ·- In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", ·etc.

VII. A ·prep In process of; in the act of; into; to;

- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging.

VIII. A ·- The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff.

- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B.

- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

IX. A ·- The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, ·etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols.

FIRST LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET

A¹

(also a)

¦ noun (plural As or A's)

1. the first letter of the alphabet.

2. denoting the first, best, or most important in a set.

3. Music the sixth note of the diatonic scale of C major, having a standard frequency of 440 Hz.

4. the human blood type (in the ABO system) containing the A antigen and lacking the B.

Phrases

from A to B from one's starting point to one's destination.

from A to Z over the entire range.

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A²

¦ abbreviation

1. (in card games) ace.

2. (in showing goals or points conceded) against.

3. ampere(s).

4. (A) angstrom(s).

5. answer.

6. (in names of sports clubs) Athletic.

7. attack (in designations of US aircraft types): an A-10.

8. Austria (international vehicle registration).

Wikipedia

Ä (lower case ä) is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ä

Aussprachebeispiele für a

1. A-a-a-a!

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2. gets a-a-a-a-a ten to make 21.

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3. a shoe, a house, a car, a dress, a phone--

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4. A curve's a curve, a plane's a plane,

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5. a human being, a culture, a religion, a country

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Beispiele aus Textkorpus für a

1. In the high school classroom you are a drill sergeant, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low–level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counsellor, a dress–code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother–father–brother–sister–uncle–aunt, a bookkeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

2. A rooster represents a boyfriend or a husband; a hen represents a girlfriend or a wife.

3. He never advised a client on a tax return, a plea bargain, a restraining order, a will or a divorce.

4. But we have a unity government: a Kurd president, a prime minister who‘s a Shia, a speaker who‘s a Sunni.

5. "Don is a husband, a father, a son, a grandfather and a friend," she said.