Any time I use the wrong definite article my German wife will loudly bark “NEIN!” It’s hot but educational.
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Hey, is your wife free later? I could really use some German lessons. I mean German less- I mean German- I mean Ger- I-I-I mean light domming.
I'm not sure any of those french phrases ever translate to "the"
You're right, they don't.
The ones beginning with "d" generally translate as "of the," while the "à" ones generally translate as "to the" or "at the."
French has three words that mean "the": "le" (masculine), "la" (feminine), and "les" (plural).
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Russian:
Der, die, das 👏👏...
Wer, wie, was👏👏
Wieso, weshalb, warum? 👏👏
In Norwegian (or rest of scandinavistan, as far as I know) we don't even use "the". Suffixes are used instead.
Fish = Fisk
The fish (single) = Fisken
The fish (plural) = Fiskene
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Edit: Shit, I mistook the original meme as about grammatical cases instead of articles. I think Finnish has 15 cases. 🤔🫣
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él la los las
Ellos ellas
Eso esa
Esos Esas.
English is schizo, but “the” is actually a very nice simplification, and It hardly impacts the communication.
… ~~it~~ he hardly impacts …
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The Inquisitor!
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I'm not sure it's kosher to count à la and de la as separate definite articles.
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Too many instances of den, not enough of das.