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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