indefinite article
noun
an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.
indefinite articles
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pluralof indefinite article.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Those folks might want to run out and snatch up all the “a” and “an” hats and shirts they can find, just in case anybody gets any crazy ideas about those indefinite articles too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
Unlike Greek, which is far more supple, it has no definite or indefinite articles; a page of Latin can look like a wall of bricks.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
Russian does not have definite and indefinite articles, but Ms Alexievich, at the time a 30-year-old Soviet author, born to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, did not need one.
From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017
The connecting particles are commonly observed; and as the language has both definite and indefinite articles, it may be employed, though with some caution, by the textual critic where other versions fail him.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
