The Hungarian definite article has two variants. The variant a occurs before consonants and az before vowels. In English the indefinite article also has two variants, a and an.
Here are examples with the Hungarian definite article:
a bor (the wine)
a hegy (the mountain)
a kulcs (the key)
a leves (the soup)
a sonka (the ham)
az alma (the apple)
az egyetem (the university)
az iskola (the school)
az orvos (the doctor)
az utca (the street)
The underlying form is az. This is also the demonstrative that. The form a can be derived with a rule which deletes the /z/ before a consonant. This can be viewed as a syllable structure process which results in the basic VC sequence.
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