A (disambiguation)

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    • 'a' can mean (among other things):**

Pronominal usages

- 'his' (third person masculine posspron possessive pronoun, when it lenition lenites the following noun) (a""L"") - 'her' (third person feminine posspron possessive pronoun, when it does not lenition lenites]) (a)

Prepositional usages

- 'from' (reduced form of the preposition as às, usually with the accent à) - 'to' (reduced form of the preposition do)

Functional usages

- 'the' (when spelled with a following apostrophe a' and before a noun exhibiting lenition, this can be the feminine commoncase common case definite determiner) - '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 non-finite clauses, when there is an InvertedNominal Inverted Nominal - direct wh complementizer - progressive aspect marker (when before a verbalnoun verbal noun, and marked with an apostrophe. This is a reduced form of the progressive marker <ag> e.g. Tha e a' dol)