Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Indefinite Article: "a" and "an" in 10 European Languages

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

Table of Indefinite Articles in 10 languages - click to enlarge

Notes:
-"a" and "an" is highly similar phonetically in each of these languages: vowel+N.
-French as well as the Iberian languages (Spanish and Portuguese) stand out grammatically as requiring the indefinite pronoun for plural nouns, whereas in the remainder of the languages such is always implied


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