Pronunciation IPA: /ðə/ before consonant, /ðiː/ before vowel or when empasized SAMPA: /D@/ before consonant, /Di:/ before vowel or when emphasized Article the "Definite article", placed before nouns, indicating a specific person or thing instead of the general case. Compare with a. Translations Afrikaans: die Arabic: -ال Basque: -a Catalan: el m s, lo m s, es m s, so m s (after amb: with) la f s, sa f, s els m pl, es m pl, sos m pl (after amb:with), ets m pl (before vowel) les f pl, ses f pl Before vowel: l' m & f s s' m & f s Chinese: not used. Danish: en c, et n, de pl Dutch: de m, f, pl, het n Esperanto: la Finnish: Not used. A demonstrative pronoun may be used for emphasis, but generally nothing needed. French: le m, la f, les pl Frisian: de, it Georgian: not used. German: der m, nominative, die f, nominative, das n, nominative des -es m, genitive, der f, genitive, des -es n, genitive dem -(e) m, dative, der f, dative, dem -(e) n, dative den m, accusative, die f, accusative, das n, accusative die m, pl, nominative, die f, pl, nominative, die n, pl, nominative der m, pl, genitive, der f, pl, genitive, der n, pl, genitive den -n m, pl, dative, den f, pl, dative, den -n n, pl, dative die m, pl, accusative, die f, pl, accusative, die n, pl, accusative Hawaiian: ka, ke s; na pl Hebrew: -ה Indonesian: si, sang Interlingua: le Irish: an s, na pl Japanese: not used. Maori: te s, nga pl Norwegian: -en c/m, -et n; en c/m, ei f, et n Portuguese: o m, a f, os m,pl, as f,pl Romanian: in form of suffixes added at the end of the word: -ul m, sg, -a f, sg, -i m, pl , -le f, pl; Neutre gender words use the masculine form on singular and the feminine form on plural. Russian: not used. Samoan: le s, e pl Spanish: el m, la f, los m,pl, las f,pl. lo n Swedish: uses articles and/or suffixes at the same time articles: den, det sg; de pl suffixes: -en, -et sg; -en, -na pl Tongan: te Turkish: not used. A word not preceded by bir is implicitely definite. Welsh: 'r, yr, y
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