Articles (was: My calendar must be wrong...)

Posted Feb 9, 2026 16:49 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: My calendar must be wrong... by Wol
Parent article: An in-kernel machine-learning library

Most (all?) Western European languages have articles. English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and German all have definite and indefinite articles. For example, Dutch has "de" and "het" for definite articles, and "een" as an indefinite article (in contrast to één, the word for "one".) Afrikaans has "die" (definite) and "'n" (indefinite).

Hebrew has a definite article ה that is smushed right on to the beginning of a word, but no indefinite article, though you can sometimes use the word for "one".