Do you have “the” or “a” in your language? What language is it?
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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.
Oh nooo
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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”.
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Yes.
English.
I’ve heard of that one. I think the is “the” and a is “a”.
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I’ve heard of that one. I think the is “the” and a is “a”.
I believe that "a" is either "a" or "an"; it depends.
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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”
In german we have der/die/das for the and ein/eine for a.
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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”
hungarian.
- "the" is "a" or "az" (the word "that" is also "az")
- "a" is "egy" (the word "one" is also "egy")
i think this might be because articles are relatively new in the language.
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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”
If you mean the definite form, then no, Polish doesn't have it. Learning English as a kid was difficult because no teacher could explain it to me in an understandable way.
I've been learning a little Romanian lately though and it is there. Romanian is such a weird language. The vocabulary is like a mixture of five other languages, the grammar has gendered words and conjugations, yet it has a strict word order, unlike Polish that thanks to the complex grammar allows for very free reordering.
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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”
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.
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In german we have der/die/das for the and ein/eine for a.
Don't tell them about the noun cases though
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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”
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.
