• In French, articles and determiners are required on almost every common noun, much more so than in English. They are inflected to agree in gender (masculine...
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  • belong to a distinct class which he called "determiners". If a language is said to have determiners, any articles are normally included in the class. Other...
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    with a determiner. For example, I have a box is grammatically correct, but *I have box is not. The most common determiners are the articles the and a(n)...
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    referents. The determiners form a closed lexical category in English. The syntactic role characteristically performed by determiners is known as the...
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  • Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they...
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  • applied to the possessive determiners ("my", "your", etc.), which are discussed at French articles and determiners. Like English, French has a number of different...
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  • number, and case. Articles are part of a broader category called determiners, which also include demonstratives, possessive determiners, and quantifiers...
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  • served as an Hors d'œuvre 'Une bouchée de', French for 'a mouthful of'. See French articles and determiners#Quantifiers Ed Bouchee (1933–2013), American...
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  • of determiners. Various types of determiners in English are summarized in the following table. Should the determiner in phrases such as the car and those...
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  • Non-numerical words for quantities (category Articles with short description)
    kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles: e.g., two dozen or more than a score. Scientific non-numerical...
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    The Spanish language uses determiners in a similar way to English. The main differences are that Spanish determiners inflect for gender (masculine/feminine...
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  • noun phrases with determiners are analyzed as having the determiner as the head of the phrase, see for instance Chomsky (1995) and Hudson (1990). Some...
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    koiné of French from Paris, the French Atlantic harbors, and the nascent French colonies. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages...
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    Abidjan French, as compared to a more traditional French, such as the omission of articles and prepositions in some linguistic contexts. Kinshasa French Kinshasa...
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  • singular nominative, and the possessive determiner is mein with various endings). Some languages have no distinct possessive determiners as such, instead...
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    Possessive determiners are placed before the noun: French Guianese Creole is largely written using the French alphabet, with only a few exceptions. 'Q' and 'X'...
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  • Pronoun (category Articles with short description)
    similar view, uniting pronouns and determiners into a single class, sometimes called "determiner-pronoun", or regarding determiners as a subclass of pronouns...
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    d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic...
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  • with the publication of the first French dictionary by the Académie française, there were attempts to reform French orthography. This has resulted in...
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  • French orthography was already (more or less) fixed and (from a phonological point of view) outdated when its lexicography developed in the late 17th...
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  • occur with determiners, articles and attributive adjectives, and can function as the head of a noun phrase. According to traditional and popular classification...
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  • Standard French (in French: le français standard, le français normé, le français neutre 'Neutral French' or le français international 'International French')...
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  • French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that...
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    English possessive (category Articles with short description)
    words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also called possessive adjectives...
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  • English grammar (category Articles with short description)
    various; and numerals (one, two, etc.). There are also many phrases (such as a couple of) that can play the role of determiners. Determiners are used...
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  • still do not treat determiners as their own part of speech, determiners are often recognizable by being listed both as adjectives and as pronouns. Trask...
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    singular) For more information, see French verbs, and Agreement rules for the past participle in French [fr]. French conjugation Preterite Perfect (grammar)...
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  • French conjugation refers to the variation in the endings of French verbs (inflections) depending on the person (I, you, we, etc), tense (present, future...
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  • Declension (category Articles with short description)
    inflection. Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners to indicate number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative...
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  • Interrogative word (category Interrogative words and phrases)
    whereby or wherefore. The interrogative words which, what, and whose are interrogative determiners when used to prompt the specification of a presented noun...
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