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determiner·A1·1 letters

used before a singular countable noun

Example sentence

I have a dog at home.

"a" in real videos

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What "a" looks like in a lesson

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Voca

Voca

Give me a sentence with "a".

I have a dog at home.

Voca

That works. Now tell me where you last heard "a".

Other A1 words

  • a.m.in the morning, before noon
  • aboutapproximately, roughly
  • abovein a higher position
  • actionsomething a person does
  • activitysomething you do for fun or exercise
  • actora person who acts in movies or plays
  • addto put something with something else
  • addressthe details of where you live
  • afraidfeeling fear
  • afterlater than something
  • afternoonthe time between noon and evening
  • againone more time

Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

The word videos on Vocaflare come from the Vocaflare Clips API. Building a language app? You can use the same index.

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