A (disambiguation)
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Pronominal usages
- 'his' third person masculine possessive pronoun, when it lenites the following noun) (aL)
- 'her' third person feminine possessive pronoun, when it does not lenite]) (a)
Prepositional usages
- 'from' (reduced form of the preposition [[[Às (preposition)|às]] (out of), usually written with the accent à
- 'to' (reduced form of the preposition do (to/of) do) Do (preposition)
Functional usages
- 'the' (when spelled with a following apostrophe a' and before a noun exhibiting lenition, this can be thefemininecommon case definite determiner) aL A' (article)
- 'the' (when spelled with a following apostrophe (a') and before a noun exhibiting lenition, this can be the masculine, genitive definite determiner)
- transitive] marker in non-finite clauses, when there is an inverted nominal: aL
- Infinitive or purpose clause marker, where there is no inverted nominal: a L/a dh', A' (infinitive marker)
- Direct (definition) wh complementizer
- progressive/imperfective aspect marker (when before a verbal noun, and marked with an apostrophe. This is a reduced form of the progressive marker ag e.g. Tha e a' dol): A' (aspect marker)