â
â - Translingual
Letter
â (upper case Â)
- The letter a with a circumflex.
â - Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ɑ̃]
Verb
â
- Gheg form of është
â - French
Letter
â (lower case, upper case Â)
- the letter a with circumflex, used in French spelling, representing the phoneme /ɑ/
â - Jersey Dutch
Pronunciation
- (phoneme): IPA: /ɔː/
Letter
â
â - Namuyi
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ʔa˥]
Pronoun
â
Synonyms
â - Neapolitan
Contraction
â (used with feminine singular nouns)
Related terms
â - Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɐ/, [ɐ], [ɜ], [ə]
- (preceding coda ‘n’ or ‘m’) IPA: /ɐ̃/, [ɐ̃], [ɜ̃], [ə̃]
- Always stressed.
Letter
â
Contraction
â
- Obsolete spelling of à
â - Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɨ/
Letter
â (lower case, upper case Â)
Usage notes
- See the usage notes at Â.
â - Sicilian
Article
â f sg (plural î)
Preposition
â
â - Skolt Sami
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA: /ɐ/
Letter
â (upper case Â)
â - Turkish
Letter
â (lower case, upper case Â)
Usage notes
Not specified in the alphabet, but used officially to mark the palatalized consonant in the same syllable or distinguish long vowels if long vowel is distinguishing factor.
â - Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA: /əː˧˥/
Letter
â (upper case Â)
â - Welsh
Alternative forms
- ag (used before vowels)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /a/
- Homophone: a
The circumflex is used to distinguish the word from a (“and”) rather than to indicate vowel length.
Preposition
â
- with
- (instrumental) with, by means of
Usage notes
 traditionally triggers the aspirate mutation, but in speech this may be absent. Before vowels, ag is used instead, except in some colloquial versions of the language where it remains â.
In the colloquial language â meaning “with” is mostly used after verbs such as cwrdd (“meet”), priodi (“marry”), ymweld (“visit”). The synonyms gyda or efo are used more generally.
Note especially the forms mynd â (“take”, literally “go with”) and dod â (“bring”, literally “come with”). Compare:
- Es i â fy mam at y meddyg ― I took my mother to the doctor [I transported her]
- Es i at y meddyg gyda fy mam ― I went to the doctor with my mother [she accompanied me]
Inflection
No personal inflections.
Conjunction
â
Usage notes
 traditionally triggers the aspirate mutation, but in speech this may be absent. Before vowels, ag is used instead.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /aː/
Verb
â
- (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of mynd
Synonyms
â - Xavante
Noun
â
- Alternative spelling of ö (Protestant spelling)