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  2. Article (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A definite article is an article that marks a definite noun phrase.Definite articles, such as the English the, are used to refer to a particular member of a group. It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be otherwise something uniquely specified.

  3. English articles - Wikipedia

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    The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an.They are the two most common determiners.The definite article is the default determiner when the speaker believes that the listener knows the identity of a common noun's referent (because it is obvious, because it is common knowledge, or because it was mentioned in the same sentence or an earlier sentence).

  4. The - Wikipedia

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    It is the definite article in English. The is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. [1] It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of ...

  5. Definiteness - Wikipedia

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    In Arabic, the definite (الـمَعْرِفَة) can be determined from the indefinite (النَّكِرَة) with presence of the definitive article al-(الـ) or a possessive pronoun suffix forming an iḍāfa construction. Adjectives describing definite nouns are also marked with the definitive article al-(الـ).

  6. Arabic definite article - Wikipedia

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    The phrase al-Baḥrayn (or el-Baḥrēn, il-Baḥrēn), the Arabic for Bahrain, showing the prefixed article.. Al-(Arabic: ٱلْـ, also romanized as el-, il-, and l-as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic), is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (ḥarf) whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite.

  7. Prefixes in Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Comments Examples מ ‎ from/of/out of/than Before ordinary letters (excluding the gutturals and ר ‎) it is מִ ‎ followed by a Dagesh Chazak. Before gutturals and ר ‎ it is מֵ ‎. Before the definite article (ה ‎) it is מֵ ‎ as in 2, and the article remains intact; or it becomes מִן ‎ plus ה ‎.

  8. A definite article should be applied only if The is used in running text throughout university materials and if that usage has caught on elsewhere. Otherwise, do not use the definite article for universities. This guideline is a weak version of the most-common-name rule. Most universities do not have a definite article in their names.

  9. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    For example, the English prepositional phrase with (his) foot (as in "John kicked the ball with his foot") might be rendered in Russian using a single noun in the instrumental case, or in Ancient Greek as τῷ ποδί (tôi podí, meaning "the foot") with both words (the definite article, and the noun πούς (poús) "foot") changing to ...