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Re: definite/indefinite articles

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 5:05
IIRC, without the article it's exclamatory or vocative; in ordinary discourse the
article is required.
  Jake X wrote:

  This leads me to a question.  I have seen this feature in Italian, which
  I don't speak (though it's cheesecake after Latin).  E.g. : il mio Dio!
  So, the question is, is this optional or required in Italian?  I.e., can
  I say Dio mio with different emphasis, or mio dio, or however they order those?

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