Welcome to vaksje (was: Re: New Survey: CelticConlangs (andother lunatic pursuits))

Tristan wrote:
> In it's context, it was discussing Dutch, were, I understand based on
> the thread, there are different articles (_het_ and _de_) for nouns of
> different genders, so you'd have to know the gender before you could use
> the article
Actually, that's something I've wondered about.  Do speakers of
languages with genders not use the article until they're sure of the
word?  I.e., would a Spanish-speaker never say "Consígueme el ... ¿qué
es la palabra? ..."?  (I hope I got that right, my Spanish is a bit
rusty)

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