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Definition of Indefinite article
1. Noun. A determiner (as 'a' or 'some' in English) that indicates nonspecific reference.
Definition of Indefinite article
1. Noun. (grammar) A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Indefinite Article
Literary usage of Indefinite article
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1903)
"indefinite article. For the position of the indefinite article see § 1793. 2041.
In Old-English the numeral an ' one' is used both as a noun and an ..."
2. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"Corresponding to the indefinite article in the singular, ... But corresponding
to the individualizing indefinite article we have in the plural some: There ..."
3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The indefinite article in German is used in many idiomatic expressions: ein jeder
or ein ... The indefinite article is often placed directly before a noun ..."
4. A German Grammar for Schools and Colleges Based on the Public School German by Albert L. Meissner, Carl Friedrich Kayser (1898)
"The indefinite article, being originally the numeral etn, one, can have no plural.
80. The declension of the indefinite article differs from that of the ..."
5. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"The indefinite article. § 225. Though the Teutonic languages agree in the later
development of the indefinite article «, an, out of the numeral, ..."
6. German Conversation-grammar: A New and Practical Method of Learning the by Emil Otto (1870)
"The indefinite article, which is equivalent to the English a or an, has also
three genders, ... Declension of the indefinite article. masc. fern. neuter. ..."
7. German Conversation-grammar: A New and Practical Method of Learning the by Emil Otto (1870)
"The indefinite article, which is equivalent to the English a or an, has also
three genders, ... Declension of the indefinite article. mate. fern. neuter. ..."
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