Meaning of -a | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Marks singular nouns, with a foundation in Greek or Latin, often implying femininity, especially when contrasted with words terminating in -us.
   morpheme
2. Marks nouns, with a foundation in Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, implying femininity.
   morpheme
3. Added for metrical reasons to songs, poetry and verse, or as an empty filler syllable to other speech.
   morpheme
4. Clitic form of o' (contraction of of).
   clitic, form-of, morpheme, slang
5. to (infinitive marker)
   informal, morpheme
6. do (infinitive marker)
   informal, morpheme
7. Changes an element or substance into an oxide.
   morpheme

Examples

“magnesium + -a → magnesia”

“donna”

“signora”

“A merry heart goes all the day Your sad tires in a mile-a”

“I love to sing-a / about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a, / I love to sing-a / about a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a.”

“I wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna really wanna be just like the Lord So every day Im gonna gonna read the Book and rest upon-a God's own holy Word Of good in me there's none-a none-a that's okay because I'm gonna trust upon the work that's done-a on the Cross and Jesus is the one-a one-a God the Father's Son-a Son-a and my sin He cures!”

“Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six-foot-four and full of muscle I said, "Do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich […]”

“"I'm-a tell-a you why you better be. I named you in my will, Franco."”

“who'da thunk it?”

“shoulda”

“coulda”

“woulda”

“buncha, cuppa, kinda, loadsa, lotta, sorta”

“"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."”

“oughta”

“wanna”

“gotta”

“gonna”

“whatta”

“Yeah, Flav, I'm tired of them dissing brothers in the P.E. out there, we got to do something about this/(What-a we do? What-a we do?)”

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