indefinite article

noun

, Grammar.

an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.

indefinite article

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grammar a determiner that expresses nonspecificity of reference, such as a, an, or some Compare definite article

indefinite article

The word a or an introducing an unspecified noun or the name of a general category: “a dog,” “an apple,” “an orange.” An is used when the next word begins with a vowel or a silent (unpronounced) h , as in “an egg” or “an hour.”

First recorded in 1720–30

AN is an indefinite article, I just said it twice, and AR is the letter that starts the word "rice."

A, the indefinite article, a broken-down form of An, and used before words beginning with the sound of a consonant.

An, an, adj. one: the indefinite article, used before words beginning with the sound of a vowel.

Paizhik is one, and is also used as the indefinite article—the only article the language possesses.

Note the Irish idiom—the definite for the indefinite article.

We remember that the Latin language has neither a definite nor an indefinite article.

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