German Indefinite Articles The indefinite articles in German refer to unspecified persons, objects, ideas…etc. and they are: ein, eine, ein, they all mean the indefinite article “a, an” in English, ein is use
Our main finding is the differential effect of specificity on definite and indefinite articles: learners tend to associate specificity with "a," which implies article omission with nonspecific indefinite singulars and overuse of "a" with specific indefinite mass nouns. Prenominal ...
However, (Mills, 1986) reports higher error rates for indefinite than for definite articles. Szagun et al., (2007) found an earlier increment for indefinite articles (at 2;04) than for definite articles (at 2;07) in German learners. The only difference is that definite articles were ...
LOW German languageDutch has one indefinite article (een; English afan) and two definite articles (de, het). The definite article de is used with masculine and feminine nouns (de man "the man"; de vrouw "the woman"), and het is used with neuter nouns (hetpaard "the horse"). ...
Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation. ...
Learning by ear: on the acquisition of case and gender marking by German-speaking children with normal hearing and with cochlear implants The acquisition of case and gender marking on the definite and indefinite article was studied in a sample of 6 normally-hearing children and 9 children wit.....
Slovenian has a kind of definite article, TA, which is intimately linked with adjectives and can appear also in indefinite noun phrases. Although it has traditionally been known simply as 'definite article' (e.g. Toporišič 2000, Herrity 2000), these two properties make it clearly differen...
324 Urtzi Etxeberria One may be led to think that the reason why Standard Basque makes use of the definite determiner [-a(k)] to get the existential interpretation is that it does not have indefinite articles. This is not correct, as Basque possesses singular and plural indefinite articles: ...
Hole, Klumpp Gerson
developments, following the leads of Greenberg (1990) and others. In addition to developing a more fine-grained typology of definite articles, the paper will also show that, even in the restricted area of Europe, we find a remarkable diversity in the meaning and use of definite articles. ...