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,...
'The owner of the house informed the workman, before he went home.' 5 In contrast to the invariant definite article the in English, its German counterparts still have an exophoric use: ich möchte DAS Buch 'I would like to have that book'. Definite articles and their uses (11) a. ...
Translated by Webmaster using Google Translate from the original German, “Die rein formalen Wissenschaften, Logik und Mathematik, haben solche Relationen zu behandeln, welche unabhängig von dem bestimmten Inhalte, der Substanz der Objecte sind oder es wenigstens sein können.” ...
In German, there are combinations of articles and distal demon-stratives which, through their composite forms, clearly illustrate the transition from demonstrative to definite article in the cataphoric use (der-jenige ‘he who’, die-jenige ‘she who’). These forms are typically employed in ...