Noun: indefinite article
| Singular | indefinite article |
| Plural | indefinite articles |
Sample Sentences
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The English Indefinite Article, "a" or "an", is more frequently used that the Italian Indefinite Article, "un", "uno", "una". [1884, Napoleone Perini, “On the Use of the Indefinite Article”, in An Italian Conversation Grammar, page 98:]
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In the indefinite article, we must note the plural in i, due to the influence of the plural li of the definite article[.] [1921, Harry Egerton Ford, “Part II. Morphology”, in Modern Provençal Phonology and Morphology:]
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The main literary dialect of ancient Greek ... has a definite article, but no indefinite article. [2018, Kory Stamper, Word by Word, page 28:]
Nouns inflected like indefinite article
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology