>>It's the same in English- the indefinite article
a becomes
an before a word starting with a vowel.
>>
>> For
u it depends how it is pronounced - I think
>>
>>A U-Turn
>>An unrelated matter
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>On a related note, same goes for words beginning with an aitch - "an honorable exception".
>
>Btw, a question for the anglophone majority here: is there a word in English which begins with a "u" and has it pronounced as u? Not as uh as in under, not as yoo as in universe, but as u as in butcher, lubricate?
urchin (not exactly but fairly close).
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