The Definite Article: "The" in 10 European Languages

 The following table shows how to write "the" in 10 languages of the Latin and Germanic families:

Table of Definite Articles in 10 languages - click to enlarge

In the example, I chose the noun "circle" to demonstrate the masculine definite article because its gender is masculine in all the languages on the chart.  "Cow" is the female example, and "hotel" demonstrates the neuter for the Germanic languages (it happens to be a masculine noun in the Latin languages)    

Notes:
-Strong Phonetic similarities within Germanic and Latin language groups
-Similarity of grammar across Latin-based languages; masculine and feminine definite articles
-German definite article has 3 singular forms, masc fem and neut.
-Dutch and the Norse languages (Danish and Swedish) have "common" and neuter definite articles


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