(art.) bir

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an
The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (mkhedruli), Ⴀ (asomtavruli) or ⴀ (nuskhuri)
In each; to or for each; per

I was only going twenty miles an hour.

If, so long as

An it please you, my lord.

Indefinite article; used when the noun may refer to one of several possibilities. An egg could be any of several eggs, while the egg refers to a specific egg (already mentioned or known)
{a} one, denoting a single person or thing
If; a word used by old English authors
"once an age,"
In such expressions as "twice an hour,"
It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically
an WEAK STRONG An is used instead of `a', the indefinite article, in front of words that begin with vowel sounds. see also a. Netherlands Antilles (in Internet addresses). airman, Navy. Word History: The forms of the indefinite article are good examples of what can happen to a word when it becomes habitually pronounced without stress. An is in fact a weakened form of one; both an and one come from Old English ān "one." In early Middle English, besides representing the cardinal numeral "one," ān developed the special function of indefinite article, and in this role the word was ordinarily pronounced with very little or no stress. Sound changes that affected unstressed syllables elsewhere in the language affected it also. First, the vowel was shortened and eventually reduced to a schwa (ə). Second, the n was lost before consonants. This loss of n affected some other words as well; it explains why English has both my and mine, thy and thine. Originally these were doublets just like a and an, with mine and thine occurring only before vowels, as in Ben Jonson's famous line "Drink to me only with thine eyes." By the time of Modern English, though, my and thy had replaced mine and thine when used before nouns (that is, when not used predicatively, as in This book is mine), just as some varieties of Modern English use a even before vowels (a apple). And if; if. W1S1 used when the following word begins with a vowel sound a
indefinite article used before a word which starts with a vowel
a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every
This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article
In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every
(art.) bir
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