What are examples of indefinite articles?

Answer 1

The definite article in English is the word the eg the word The indefinitearticle is the word a or an eg a word or an apple a is used before words starting with a consonant except words starting with unaspirated h eg a book an is used before words starting with a vowel or unaspirated h eg an apple, an hour, an historic day

Answer 2

A suitable answer to this question would need to be extremely long. In my courses we spend about eight to ten hours studying articles. Furthermore, we do an intensive study of nouns first to prepare for the study of articles. However, one of the most important rules is as follows: We use the indefinite article a/an the first time we mention a singular countable noun, and if we mention that noun again we use the definite article the. For example, She has a son and a daughter. The son is six and the daughter is four. One other point is that there is a third article, the zero article, which is used with plural and uncountable nouns to make a general statement.

Answer 3

In English, the indefinite articles are "a" before a consonant sound, and its variant "an", used before a vowel sound.

In Spanish: un, unos, una, unas (the plural versions meaning "some")

In German: ein (with various endings, according to case, gender and number)

In Dutch: en

In French, un, une

Italian: un, una, uno (before sp), un' (before a noun beginning with a vowel, regardless of gender)

Answer 4

A man is talking to his son and says "I'm walking over to the Jones' house; take the car and meet me there in 15 minutes." There is a family car, the son obviously has driving privileges, and there is no confusion at all about what car the son will take to the Jones' house. "The" implies a definite, specific car, in this case the family car. What if the father had said..."take a car and meet me there in 15 minutes." This could mean that the family has two or more cars, and which one the son takes is indefinite; it is not specified by the father. Or the father could be saying to "just take a car; any car you find whether it's ours or not". That would be absurd, but not impossible. In either case, the word "a" implies that which car is taken is 'indefinite', not specific; the son has a choice from among 2 or more.

Answer 5

Definite Articles

There are four definite articles and they all mean "the"

Masculine/singular :El

Masculine/plural : Los

Feminine/singular

Feminine/plural :Las

Indefinite articles

There are four indefinite articles. The singular ones mean "a" and the plural ones mean "some"

Masculine/ singular :Un

Masculine/plural :Unos

Feminine/ singular :Una

Feminine/plural :Unas

Answer 6

Indefinite articles and definite articles are used in Spanish pretty much the same way as in English, being there one difference:

In Spanish, when referring to things in general, a definite article is used as opposed to English where it isn't.

E.g. I like dogs = Me gustan LOS perros.

however, there are many exceptions in which I wouldn't feel comfortable using an article. For instance: No disfruto LA química (I don't enjoy chemistry) is correct. Sé de química (I know about chemistry), which is also correct but "Sé de LA química" is incorrect.

Answer 7

In English there are two: "a" and "an". In other languages there are many (Spanish has four) or none (Russian has zero).

Answer 8

definite has an end indefinite has no end