à
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See also Appendix:Variations of "a"
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Variations of letter A
Áá Àà Ââ Ǎǎ Ăă Ãã Ảả Ȧȧ Ạạ Ää Åå Ḁḁ Āā Ąą ᶏ Ⱥⱥ Ȁȁ Ấấ Ầầ Ẫẫ Ẩẩ Ậậ Ắắ Ằằ Ẵẵ Ẳẳ Ặặ Ǻǻ Ǡǡ Ǟǟ Ȁȁ Ȃȃ Ɑɑ ᴀ Ɐɐ ɒ Aa Ææ Ǽǽ Ǣǣ Letters using grave accent or double grave accent
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à lower case (upper case À)
- The letter a with a grave accent.
Latin ad.
à (lower case, upper case A, alternate usage À)
- A with grave accent, a letter used in French mostly to distinguish some homographs and in transliteration.
- Accents usage on capital letters is variable. Quebec usage is normally to put capitals, European usage usually does not put capitals.
à
- to (towards, in the direction of)
- Je vais à Paris. -- I am going to Paris.
- to (until)
- Le spectacle sera de 18h à 21h. -- The show will be from 6pm to 9 pm.
- at (said of a particular time)
- Je pars à cinq heures. -- I am leaving at five.
- at (said of a particular place)
- à la maison - at home
- à l'hôtel - at the hotel
- of (belonging to)
- C'est un ami à moi. -- This is a friend of mine.
- C'est la voiture à John. -- This is John's car.
- till, until (used in farewells)
- Salut, à demain. -- Bye, til tomorrow/Bye, see you tomorrow
- (cuisine) cooked in or with
- Steak au poivre -- Steak with pepper sauce
When followed by a definite article, à is combined with the article to give the following combined forms:
à + article | Combined form |
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à + le | au |
à + la | à la |
à + l' | à l' |
à + les | aux |
- Expresses a report/ratio of place (to), time (at), possession (of or 's), means, manner, price.
- Introduced a complement of indirect object or a complement of attribution, a complement of the name or adjective.
- Some intransitive verbs in French use à before the object, e.g. réussir à, jouer à. In these cases, the à is not translated into English
à (form of a4 with diacritic)
- 阾:
Contraction of a (“‘to’”) + a (“‘the’”)
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- Before the definite article the form às is used instead.
- The following prepositional pronouns: