—used to be a functionality word just before a suitable noun to tell apart the affliction of the referent from the usual, previous, or hypothetical situationWithin the Global Phonetic Alphabet, ⟨a⟩ is useful for the open front unrounded vowel, ⟨ä⟩ is utilized for the open central unrounded vowel, and ⟨ɑ⟩ is employed for the open up