Consider a system - maybe case, something else - where -n is e.g. a case marker. However, it is also a marker similar to the -n in English a/an.
Thus
I bought an car (an = acc)
a car is parked in my spot
but
I bought an apple
an apple a day keeps the doctor away
So, the only situation in which the case is visibly marked is whenever 'a' stands before a consonant. One could imagine a similar thing for, say, some marking on verbs (maybe plural marking or some tense marking on some verbs).
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