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B1thegrammaticalnamefor the word "the" inEnglish, or the words in otherlanguagesthat have asimilaruse 定冠词 Compareindefinite articlespecialized - InFrench, you mustincludeeither thedefinitearticle'le' or 'la', or theindefinitearticle'un' or 'une', before anoun.
- Remember to use thedefinitearticlebefore 'radio' insentenceslike 'I waslisteningto theradio'.
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See more results » (Definition ofdefinite articlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- Al is the Arabic definite article.
- The definite article the belongs to nouns in the singular or plural number.
- The is, therefore, called the definite article.
- The present participle with the definite article the before it, becomes a noun, and must have the preposition of after it.
- There is one definite article, la, invariable.
definite article| American Dictionarygrammarthe word “the” inEnglish, or the words in otherlanguagesthat have asimilaruse (Definition ofdefinite articlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofdefinite articledefinite article Furthermore, which, what, and whose are formally wh-words, and thedefinitearticleand the demonstratives are formally characterized by being th-words.From theCambridge English Corpus The agreement types de and het (the two forms of thedefinitearticle) distinguish between neuter and nonneuter nouns.From theCambridge English Corpus Future research must establish the plausibility of a developmental difference between singular and plural forms within thedefinitearticleand direct object clitic systems.From theCambridge English Corpus Erroneous use of the nominative forms der, die, das of thedefinitearticledid not differ in the group of normally-hearing children.From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, for thedefinitearticleparadigm frequency of use in adult speech and error preferences by children corresponded moderately to less well.From theCambridge English Corpus It is, therefore, crucial for the purposes of composition that thedefinitearticlenot be assigned the status of a (determiner) head.From theCambridge English Corpus I will show that the morpheme ay in the verb functions in the same way as thedefinitearticle.From theCambridge English Corpus We will see, in section 4.3, that the semantics of ay is analogous to the semantics of thedefinitearticlein language.From theCambridge English Corpus Thedefinitearticletherefore becomes unacceptable here not because the referent is not known in an immediate situation but because of cultural practice.From theCambridge English Corpus In the other case, adefinitearticlewas used, rather than indefinite but this could be argued to be a unique mention (the freezer).From theCambridge English Corpus The rest of the characters are introduced with adefinitearticle.From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, as can be seen in example (18), she oversupplies thedefinitearticlein nonspecific indefinite contexts.From theCambridge English Corpus For instance, thedefinitearticlethe specifies that the instance it grounds is presumed to be identifiable to the addressee.From theCambridge English Corpus This is strong evidence to suggest that a preposed adnominal genitive nominal was in complementary distribution with a demonstrative or 'definitearticle'.From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, idiomatic usage may distinguish between the zero article and thedefinitearticlein such contexts.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/definite-article## |