I do. The is “el/la” and a is “un/una”.
In my dad’s language and my second language, it’s “the” and “a”
Yes. In danish either “en” or “et” goes in front of nouns like this: “en kat” and “et hus”. This is equal to “a cat” and “a house”.
If it’s in specific, it goes at the end of the word instead like this: “katten” and “huset”. This is equal to “the cat” and “the house”.
Portuguese, we do and we use it in everything. Even something simple like “for my Father” most of us say “for the my Father”.
“Sou filho do meu pai”
Translating literally becomes:
“am son of the my Father”
That’s not true for all Portuguese speakers. Most brazilian northeasterners don’t use it as you described, as it’s unnecessary.
Edit: The way I would say the sentences above:
“Pra meu pai”
“Sou filho de meu pai”I was gonna edit the comment to add a similar note right after posting but I was already half asleep and apparently I didn’t do it.
Estou a aprender o português!!
Yes.
English.
I’ve heard of that one. I think the is “the” and a is “a”.
Also sometimes “an”.
Truly a terrible language.
Yes, we do.
“Il/lo/la/i/gli/le” instead of “the”, the precise article is chosen taking in consideration gender and plurality. We even have elliptic forms with " l’ ," for words starting with a vowel.
Then we have “un/uno/una” instead of “a”. Again elliptic form "un’ " for feminine words starting with a vowel.
Italian here 🤌
Funny story. I know an old Chinese man who has a stutter. When he starts a sentence he often repeats the the the the the before he gets going. It sounds like removed removed removed. So far no one has confronted him but I always worry it will happen some day.
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Oh nooo 😭
A very bad word that we’re not even supposed to say on the internet, believe it or not.
Icelandic has no word for “a.” A noun without a definite article suffix can be either “noun” or “a noun.” Then there is a suffix for definite article (epli “apple” -> eplið “the apple”). There is also a slightly more obscure hinn/hin/hið which can mean “the” as a separate word, but that’s not really used in most situations.
Si exista en Español y inglés, son artículos definidos ( el, la, los, las ) y artículos indefinidos ( un, una, unos, unas )
Yes, they exist in Spanish and English, as indefinite articles ( a, an ) and definite articles, which English has one ( the )
Japanese does not to my knowledge have any articles, これは何 could mean what is this or what are these. りんご could be one or more apples.
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Mandarin:
No “the,” you just say the noun and that’s it.
“A” or any other quantity of a noun is generalized as a number, followed by a character indicating quantity, followed by the noun. “An apple” is 一个苹果 (yi ge ping guo), 一 literally means one, 个 is the character that denotes quantity (it’s the most common one but some nouns have different quantity adjectives), 苹果 is apple. Two is an exception because there’s a special character for it that’s different from the number two (两个苹果 as opposed to 二个苹果), but every other number quantity is the same as the number itself.
I like Chinese as a language
o, a, os, as for “the”
um, uma, uns, umas for “a”
both lists mean: singular masculine, singular feminine, plural masculine, plural feminine.
and if the gender is unknown or mixed you use the masculine
People have covered German and French. Esperanto has the genderless “la” for “the”; there is no “a” article. “Here is a house” is “Ĉi tie estas domo,” or “Jen estas domo,” or even simply “Estas domo” depending on what you mean. But there’s no article.
We don’t have either an ‘a’ or a ‘the’, but we have a ‘that’ and it’s ‘o’.
A bird = Kuş => Bir Kuş
If we need to specify that it is singular (like you often do with ‘a’ we say ‘one’ aka ‘bir’ instead)
This language is Turkish, by the way.
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Yes, it’s “le/la” and “un/une” in French
