How To Use Definite article In A Sentence
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For instance, if I say “the big, glorious red fortress,” you understand that the definite article captures ideas about the bigness and gloriousness and redness of the fortress as well as that of the fortress itself.
The English Is Coming!
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The man had become a myth and acquired the definite article.
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A characteristic trait of Danish and the rest of the Nordic languages is the presence of the enclitic definite article.
Understanding Each Other in Different Languages
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Some nouns contain the Old Norse suffixed definite article (i)nn: croopan trunk of the body, fyandin the devil, knorin boat, and the Shetland sea-terms birten fire, hestin horse, monen moon, and sulin sun.
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Take a look at the definite article for instance, which is denoted by a suffix in the Scandinavian languages ("bord-et", "banan-en"), and only precedes nouns as a distinct word in the West Germanic manner when the nouns are qualified by adjectives ("det nye hus" instead of "huset").
Languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES.
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Having evoked these schemata, the writer can safely point at features of them, using the definite article (which, remember, signifies “you know which one”).
A is for Articles (2) « An A-Z of ELT
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It means "the", which otherwise you don't get in Slavic languages (though the neighbouring non-Slavic Albanian and Romanian also use a suffix to form the definite article).
И сонцето е ѕвезда
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English does not require the use of gender-differentiated forms of the definite article and other similar words.
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In English, the definite article, the demonstrative and the qualification adjective are neutral as to gender variation.
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It's the nominative masculine plural definite article.
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It is a rule of Italian that the definite article has to ‘agree’ with the noun in gender.
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All of these examples involve head nouns with an indefinite article.
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The phrase eis telos is indefinite; it has no definite article nor any defining qualificative; it modifies ephthase and refers to no definite end either accomplished or to be accomplished.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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So, tell us Ihar, when did you first notice your allergy to the definite article?
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In the previous post on articles – A is for articles (1) – I focused mainly on the indefinite article and attempted to correct the common misconception that the referents of a/an are both indefinite and non-specific.
A is for Articles (2) « An A-Z of ELT
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Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
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The historical lore was that JFK, in his first faltering words of German, was wrong to use the indefinite article.
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An article is placed before a substantive to limit or determine its meaning; the articles are _a_, _an_, and _the_; _a_ or _an_ is called the _indefinite article_, because it does not point out any particular object: _the_ is called the _definite article_ because it determines what particular object is meant.
A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.
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As discussed in previous posts, the usual pattern in English is for the indefinite article, when unstressed and preceding a word starting with a consonant, to be pronounced as a short reduced mid-central vowel.
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Note the indefinite article - A judicial view, not the judicial view.
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Finally, I remember reading in Payne's Describing morphosyntax that there's a tendency to mark only objects with a definite article, if definite nouns aren't always overtly marked.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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The anarthrous refers to a word or group of words that appear without a definite article.
Possessing the Treasure
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His use of the definite article in his sub-title is, one would argue, inappropriate.
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An ‘amir’, or ‘emir’, was a commander, and ‘al’ is the definite article, leading to titles such as ‘amir-al-bah’, commander of the sea.
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It's the nominative masculine plural definite article.
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Nouns derived from a place name in German, used in this kind of sentence, don't normally take the indefinite article ein.
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On this account, it is the polysemy of the indefinite article that gives rise to the ambiguity of the indefinite noun phrase.
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The lack of a definite article makes it even cockier.
David Weinberger: Rating 1960s Bands' Names
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After having worked out a hard core system of rules for analysing numerals, definite articles, and indefinite articles, we give a thorough study of the French singular definite article le.
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Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
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As for _t'one_ and _t'other_, they should be _'tone_ and _'tother_, being elisions for _that one_ and _that other_, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
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The definite article was inclined to appear in strange places, and to disappear from other places where it should have been.
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The Christological inflection, however, particularizes these common nouns by the use of the definite article.
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In the case of nouns, the singular with the postpositive definite article and the indefinite plural are given in parenthesis.
Fritiofs Saga
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All critical nouns were uncapitalized, whereas all critical definite articles were capitalized.
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Danish students are reported using the English definite article more often than monoglot speakers of English.
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In Swedish, the indefinite article is a free morpheme, whereas the definite article is a suffix to the noun.
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I now believe that de la Grasserie's semantic characterization is more accurate in this respect: a nominal construct with a personal possessive pronoun brings into the picture a further qualification of the noun phrase than does the noun phrase with just a definite article.
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This is significant and if God meant it the way the modalists and the other heretics meant it, three definite articles would not have separated the three.
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And very often an indefinite article possibly with some er a noun phrase with some modifier.
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Our word lariat comes from this Mexican word with the definite article prefixed and the final vowel dropped.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4
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Other continuative particles can be used, so long as they match the definite article attached to the subject.
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Finally, I remember reading in Payne's Describing morphosyntax that there's a tendency to mark only objects with a definite article, if definite nouns aren't always overtly marked.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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They are all blond and call themselves Gang, without the definite article, which has an icily Germanic ring.