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The indefinite articles A/AN are used when tAlking about a general or non-specific noun.

不定冠詞A/AN指的是一般名詞或非特定名詞。

Where is a teacher?/A book is on the table./Did you bring a cake?

老師在哪裏？/桌子上有一本書。/你帶蛋糕了嗎？

But unlike the definite article, A/AN can only be used with singular countable nouns. We can’t say a teachers, a books, a cakes.

但與定冠詞不同，A/AN只能用於單數可數名詞。我們不能說是a teachers, a books, a cakes。

Instead we use the definite article: the teachers, the books, the cakes.

取而代之的是定冠詞：the teachers, the books, the cakes。

Where are the teachers?/The books are on the table./Did you bring the cakes?

老師們在哪裏？/書在桌子上。/你把蛋糕帶來了嗎？

Remember!

記得！

In English, we use an with any noun that starts with a vowel sound, NOT with a noun that starts with a vowel. This is very important because many nouns that start with a vowel don’t have a vowel sound such as university, we say a university NOT an university. Also, many vowel sounding words don’t start with a vowel for example hour, we say an hour.

在英語中，我們使用以元音開頭的任何名詞，而不是以元音開頭的名詞。這一點非常重要，因爲許多以元音開頭的名詞沒有元音，比如大學，我們說的大學不是大學。而且，許多聽起來像元音的單詞都不是以元音開頭的，比如小時，我們說一小時。

Below is a list of nouns you can use ‘an’ with:

下面是可以與“an”一起使用的名詞列表：

an oven/an apple/an honour/an octopus/an auntie/an injury/an umbrella/an egg

烤箱/蘋果/榮譽/章魚/阿姨/受傷/雨傘/雞蛋

Here is a list of nouns used with A:

下面是與a一起使用的名詞列表：

a table/a pillow/a university/a cake/a bed/a utopia

桌子/枕頭/大學/蛋糕/牀/烏托邦

Here is a list of nouns used with An:

下面是與一個An連用的名詞列表：

an oven/an orange/an honour/an invention/an hour/an evening

烤箱/桔子/榮譽/發明/一小時/一晚

Here are examples of how we use A and An in a sentence:

下面是我們如何在句子中使用A和An的例子：

There is a university close to here./The movie starts in an hour./There is an octopus in the water./The new house doesn’t have an oven but it has a washing machine./I need an umbrella, it’s raining outside.

附近有一所大學。/電影一小時後開始。/水裏有一隻章魚。/新房子沒有烤箱，但有洗衣機。/我需要一把傘，外面在下雨。

THE is called a definite article, we use the with all nouns and for specific nouns, like a certain person or a particular thing.

The被稱爲定冠詞，我們使用與所有名詞和特定名詞，如某個人或某事物。

For example:

舉例：

Where is the teacher?/The book is on the table/Did you bring the cake?

老師在哪裏？/書在桌子上/你帶蛋糕了嗎？

The examples above are talking about specific things or people. In the first example, they are looking for a specific teacher, maybe a biology teacher or an English teacher. They are not looking for any teacher, they want to know where that particular teacher is.

上面的例子是談論特定的事物或人。在第一個例子中，他們正在尋找一個特定的老師，也許是一個生物老師或者一個英語老師。他們不找老師，他們想知道那個老師在哪裏。

The other two examples have a similar concept, example two is talking about a specific book on a specific table. And the third example is talking about a particular cake, maybe a birthday cake or a wedding cake.

另外兩個例子有一個相似的概念，例子二是在一個特定的桌子上談論一本特定的書。第三個例子是一個特別的蛋糕，可能是生日蛋糕或者婚禮蛋糕。