Is it an hour or a hour?

There are two variants of the indefinite article: a and an. You use “a” when the word starts with a consonant sound and “an” when the word starts with a vowel sound.

The noun “hour” is pronounced with a silent “h” (vowel sound), so you should use “an.

  • We only have a hour.
  • I waited an hour for you.

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