English Dictionary

an

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæn/

冠詞

不定 稀用 非標準 イギリス英語 ウェスト・カントリー方言

Used before a vowel sound. / Used before /h/ in an unstressed syllable. / (now quite rare) Used before one and words with initial u, eu. / (nonstandard) Used before /h/ in a stressed syllable.

日本語の意味

母音で始まる単語の直前で使用される不定冠詞。 / 弱勢の/h/で始まる単語の直前で使用される場合がある。 / 現在は非常に稀だが、数字の“one”や、最初がuまたはeuで始まる単語の前に使用される。 / 非標準的だが、強勢のある/h/で始まる単語の前で使用される場合がある。

She brought an apple to the picnic.

彼女はピクニックに、母音で始まる語の前に使う不定冠詞を付けたリンゴを持ってきました。

意味（1）

Used before a vowel sound.

I'll be there in half an hour.

意味（2）

Used before /h/ in an unstressed syllable.

The Province of Nanking, by the Tartars called Kiangnan, is the ſecond in honour, in magnitude and fertility in all China : It is divided into 14 great Territories, having Cities and Towns an hundred and ten; Nanking, or Kiangning being the Metropolis; a City, that if ſhe did not exceed moſt Cities on the Earth in bigneſs and beauty, yet ſhe was inferior to few, for her Pagodes, her Temples, her Porcelane Towers, her Palaces and Triumphal Arches. Fungiang, Sucheu, Sunkiang, Leucheu, Hoaigan, Ganking, Ningue, Hoeicheu, are alſo eminent places, and of great Note and Trade.

意味（3）

(now quite rare) Used before one and words with initial u, eu.

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

意味（4）

(nonstandard) Used before /h/ in a stressed syllable.

意味（5）

(nonstandard, Britain, West Country) Used before all consonants.