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a healthy vs an healthy

The correct phrase is 'a healthy.' The use of 'a' or 'an' depends on the sound that follows it. In this case, 'healthy' starts with a consonant sound, so 'a' is the appropriate article to use.

Last updated: March 30, 2024 • 8218 views

a healthy

Correct. 'A' is used before words that begin with a consonant sound.

Use 'a' before words that begin with a consonant sound. For example, 'a healthy lifestyle' or 'a happy person.'
  • This country was founded on a healthy distrust of authority.
  • Intense national debates on how to create a healthy media ecology are to be encouraged.
  • Of course, there is also a healthy element of competition.
  • It was a healthy debate between scientists.
  • Plus a healthy helping of new-age philosophy.
  • I don't think that's a healthy perspective.
  • It was a healthy debate between scientists.
  • Hair needs a healthy blood flow.
  • About what was a healthy relationship with an adult.
  • Looks like you have a healthy baby boy.
  • Christina Sherman... Delivered a healthy baby girl September 25, 1994.
  • But l regard it as a healthy sign.
  • I was really looking forward to a healthy youthful glow.
  • She seems a healthy, well-balanced girl.
  • Mr. Walker said everyone has to bring a healthy snack.
  • The garden is a healthy one, Thomas.
  • I know you're a healthy farmer.
  • I think they're spreading a pathogen, and they need a healthy host.
  • The first son of Frankenstein wanted to provide the monster with a healthy brain.
  • I will not apologize for a healthy colon.

an healthy

Incorrect. 'An' is used before words that begin with a vowel sound. 'Healthy' starts with a consonant sound, so 'an' is not appropriate here.

Avoid using 'an' before words that begin with a consonant sound. Instead, use 'a.'
  • An healthy variation in opinion.
  • An otherwise healthy animal must have suffered an accident that prevented its transport to the slaughterhouse for welfare reasons.
  • The goal of amputation is to remove dead tissue to preserve an otherwise healthy limb.
  • Daniel Traxler is an otherwise healthy adult male.
  • And when you add those two together, you get an ordinary healthy romance.
  • Others, in an otherwise healthy body, have poorly functioning or damaged vital organs, such as heart, kidneys, liver or lungs.
  • Okay, well, it's not unprecedented for an otherwise healthy young women to have sudden cardiac arrest.
  • I'm this size because I've been pregnant before and I have an appropriately healthy appetite.
  • An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
  • An attractive, healthy young woman.
  • I'm an honourable, healthy man.
  • There are European names in the US disclosures, and it would be an altogether healthy thing for EU central banks to follow suit with similar disclosure about support during 2008 and 2009 as an accompaniment to the new stress tests.
  • Eliminating carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic pesticides, and substances that weaken our nervous and endocrine systems and damage our immune systems, is an entirely healthy aim.
  • No, I'm healthy as an ox.
  • And it's healthy as an apple.
  • This aspiration that our healthcare keep us healthy is an enormously powerful one.
  • I've always been healthy as an ox.
  • The dog's healthy as an ox.
  • Of course, it will require an ovum from a healthy human woman.
  • An entire herd of healthy adult deer just drowning like doesn't make any sense.

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