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What (who) is -a - definition
LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET
A-breve; Ằ; Ẳ; Ắ; Ẵ; Ặ
-a
-a1
¦ suffix forming:
1. ancient or Latinized modern names of animals and plants: primula.
2. names of oxides: baryta.
3. geographical names: Africa.
4. ancient or Latinized modern feminine forenames: Lydia.
5. nouns from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish: stanza.
Origin
representing a Gk, L., or Romance feminine singular
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-a2
¦ suffix forming plural nouns:
1. from Greek or Latin neuter plurals corresponding to a singular in -um or -on (such as addenda, phenomena).
2. in names (often from modern Latin) of zoological groups: Insectivora.
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-a3
¦ suffix informal
1. of: coupla.
2. have: mighta.
3. to: oughta.
Å
LETTER; SEPARATE LETTER IN THE SWEDISH, DANISH, NORWEGIAN, FINNISH, NORTH FRISIAN, WALLOON, CHAMORRO, LULE SAMI, SKOLT SAMI, SOUTHERN SAMI, AND GREENLANDIC ALPHABETS
A ring; A-ring; A with a ring; U+00C5; U+00E5; A with ring; A with ring above
The letter Å (å in lower case) represents various (although often very similar) sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume Sami, and Greenlandic alphabets.
Â
Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in French, Friulian, Frisian, Portuguese, Turkish, Walloon, and Welsh languages as a variant of the letter "a".
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Ă
Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian and Vietnamese orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter of the Romanian, Vietnamese, and the pre-1972 Malaysian alphabets, after A.
Ă/ă is also used in several languages for transliteration of the Bulgarian letter Ъ/ъ.
Examples of use of -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.