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indefinite article

noun

Grammar.
  1. an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.


indefinite article

noun

  1. grammar a determiner that expresses nonspecificity of reference, such as a, an, or some Compare definite article
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

indefinite article

  1. The word a or an introducing an unspecified noun or the name of a general category: 鈥渁 dog,鈥 鈥渁n apple,鈥 鈥渁n orange.鈥 An is used when the next word begins with a vowel or a silent (unpronounced) h , as in 鈥渁n egg鈥 or 鈥渁n hour.鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of indefinite article1

First recorded in 1720鈥30
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Toossi鈥檚 script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they鈥檙e speaking Farsi; when they鈥檙e speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.

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But this move, switching from the definite to the indefinite article, still yields some rather troubling conclusions.

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The "n" detached itself from the "-apron" and instead joined up with the indefinite article "a" 鈥 resulting in what we now call "an apron" today.

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Ich bin Berliner is how most Berlin natives would express the sentiment, but the president was actually showing off a complex understanding of German when he added the indefinite article.

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I thought a singular noun should always follow the singular indefinite article 鈥渁.鈥

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