"Una divisa"
Translation:A uniform
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I was told I'm school that if there's a vowel after "a" the you change the a to an because two vowels can't be together
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That would be true if uniform were pronounced as "ooniform". I'm not sure what dialect of English you have, but most of them pronounce it as "yooniform". Y, notably, being a consonant here.
It's why why someone would say "Could you spare a Euro? and not "Could you spare an Euro?"
Or someone would say "I visited a university yesterday" rather than "I visited an university yesterday."
That would include "an herb" --even if you are inclined to pronounce the "h". :)
In UK English we pronounce it Herb with the "h" (not 'erb without) and say "a herb".
And here we come full circle:
American English "An (h)erb" (Parenthesis indicating the silent /h/.) British English "A herb" (/h/ pronounced/)
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Cheers, everyone. :)
Could u give me an example using 'an' and a word beginig with a vowel? Thanks!
The u in umbrella is transcribed /^/ the u in uniform is transcribed /ju:/ the first one is a vowel sound the second one the "j" is not, that is why the correct form is AN UMBRELLA and A UNIFORM
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It's not the WRITTEN word but the SOUND. You need to be careful with the words starting with U because it can be pronounced either /a/ or /ju/, and H because it may be silent sometimes.
Examples:
A universe, uniform, etc...
AN umbrella, umpire, etc...
A hospital, house, etc...
AN hour, heir, etc...
Thank you so much! Undina, you killed two birds with a stone. :)
You teach us the correct way to write and spell it and plus gave us a great example. Take care of my Lingot. :)
The rule of placing an before a vowel is actually to place an before a vowel sound. Therefore, because uniform is pronounced with a "y" sound (/ˈjuːnɪfɔːm/), which is not a vowel sound, it takes an a before it.
Anyone else find it funny that a word that sounds like 'division' is used for a word denoting unity? :D
different problem: why wouldn't currency be marked as correct? Same chapter appears to have the wallet as a new word right after "una divisa" ?!
I hate to pick on your female robot but she just cannot pronounce "divisa" properly
I must agree that for much of the Italian it is difficult to understand the pronunciations.
a, e, i, o, u, and SOMETIMES y. Y is only a vowel if it sounds like i. Dynamo- the y is a vowel. Mystery-the y is a vowel. Young- the y is a consonant. Make sense?
Well, it does a little, but if you segregate the phonemes, it will still sound like a vowel (will sound like "e" in this case: \i-\dn-\g or: \e-\un-\g)
Spricht man den vokal als Konsonanten aus, so wird A anstatt AN verwendet
(C) native speaker am telefon
Here is the place to speak English or Italian not German.
Sie sprichen Englisch oder Italisch, keine Deutsch.
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Sounds yet again like "un" and not "una". To learn correctly, I /we need a clear speaker . There are many instances of bad pronunciation in the course. Ok for the native speaker but an unnecessary add-on for the learner.
there are some answers to the question about the use a and an before the begining words with vowel! but it is not clear for me, could some friend help me with this. i will apreciate your answer and i I want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy ending of the year and a successful new year 2017
