You may have noticed how the definite article changes each time the case changes. So try to memorize the table above by heart, I’m sure it’s not that hard. German Indefinite Articles The indefinite articles in German refer to unspecified persons, objects, ideas…etc. and they are: ein,...
This study is concerned with the distribution of the definite article in German with plural nominals that have a generic reading . In Standard German, genericity is typically expressed by bare nouns (Tiger sind gefhrlich'Tigers are dangerous'). Many researchers have claimed that there is ...
References in periodicals archive ?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...
Among their topics are second-language constructions and interactional competence: subordination and coordination in English second-language learning, optional that in complementation by German and Spanish learners, using blending theory to teach English conditionals, making sense of the definite article throu...
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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"). ...
The origin of the cliticness of the west Germanic definite article: the case of BeowulfIn the Germanic languages, unaccented pronominal subjects have been in use for quite some time, whenever other types of subject are excluded. Utilising Gothic, Northumbrian and above all Old High German data...
In the present paper, we focus on the existence of global strong solutions of (1.1) and generalisations of it including jumps and more general diffusion coefficients. Because of the non-Lipschitz diffusion at the boundary of the cone, this problem is a quite delicate one–a priori it is onl...
In spite of the fact that the definite article developed from a demonstrative pronoun, in the colloquial Slovenian it differs in many respects from the definite article in German, which indicates that the definite article is a result of an original development of the Slovenian language, not a ...
We present a learner corpus-based study of English article use ("a"/"the"/) by L2 learners with four typologically distinct first languages (L1s): German and Brazilian Portuguese (both have articles), Chinese and Russian (no articles). We investigate several semantic and ...