In English, the name of the letter is the long A sound, pronounced / ˈeɪ /. Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. The earliest known ancestor of …

A definition: not any particular or certain one of a class or group. See examples of a used in a sentence.

At the present time the letter represents six principal vowel sounds: (1) its original value, the low back vowel, as in father; (2) an intermediate vowel, as in plan; (3) a closer vowel, further …

English Easy Learning Grammar When do you use 'a' and 'an' in English? A or an is the indefinite article. The form an is used before a word that starts with a vowel sound. The ... Read more. A …

Used before nouns and noun phrases that denote a single but unspecified person or thing: a region; a person. 2. Used before terms that denote number, amount, quantity, or degree: only …

Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter a is usual. but an also occurs though less frequently now than formerly. Before unstressed or weakly stressed syllables with initial h both …

1780, The Twelve Days of Christmas: The twelfth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Twelve lords a- leaping, … Eight maids a- milking, Seven swans a- swimming, Six geese a …

In algebra, the letter "A" along with other letters at the beginning of the alphabet is used to represent known quantities. In geometry, capital A, B, C etc. are used to label line segments, …

A meaning: 1 : the first letter of the English alphabet; 2 : a musical note or key referred to by the letter A the sixth tone of a C-major scale

Listed below are the keyboard shortcuts or Windows Alt codes for letter A with accents. The accents on the letter A are also called accent marks, diacritics, or diacritical marks.