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Re: CHAT: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Saturday, September 7, 2002, 16:14
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > 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