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indefinite article

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indefinitearticle (pluralindefinite articles)

  1. (grammar) A wordpreceding anoun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of theclass of objects named by the noun.
    • 1884, Napoleone Perini, “On the Use of the Indefinite Article”, inAn Italian Conversation Grammar, page98:
      The EnglishIndefinite Article, "a" or "an", is more frequently used that the ItalianIndefinite Article, "un", "uno", "una".
    • 1921, Harry Egerton Ford, “Part II. Morphology”, inModern Provençal Phonology and Morphology:
      In theindefinite article, we must note the plural ini, due to the influence of the pluralli of the definite article[.]
    • 2018, Kory Stamper,Word by Word, page28:
      The main literary dialect of ancient Greek ... has a definite article, but noindefinite article.

Usage notes

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  • In English, this term can be represented asa (before a consonant sound) oran (before a vowel sound) in the singular; in the plural, an indefinite article isn't used at all.

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word preceding a noun to indicate any member of the class of objects
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