--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote: > --- Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > My French isn't rusty for the simple reason that I
> don't know it, but the sg
> > indefinite article _un_/_une_, derived from
> _unus_, hasn't prevented French
> > from acquiring a pl indefinite article _des_.
>
> If you count "des" really as an article, you ought
> to include "du", "de la"
> etc. as well. But in fact, this is just the
> combination of a preposition with
> the definite article.
>
i' ve seen french described as having THREE articles :
indefinite: un/une/des
partitive: du/de la/des
definite: le/la/les
where the first two have convergent forms in the
plural ( with some exceptions of usage )
but this might have been the grammarian's pet theory .
. . !
bn
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