Re: CHAT: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 7, 2002, 16:14 |
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> The Germanic languages are pretty freeky in this regard - definite articles
> in both numbers, but the indefinite ones only show up in the singular. What
> other languages with this lack of symmetry are there?
>
> Andreas
Hungarian. Though Hungarian is still freakier.
kutya = dog
kutya'k = dogs
a kutya = the dog
a kutya'k = the dogs
az egy kutya = the one dog
a hat kutya = the six dogs (literally, the six dog)
When a number is used to specify how many, the noun is in singular...
---ferko