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Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Trouble with Articles

En réponse à Christian Thalmann :



Right.  Stupid me.  ;-)


LOL.



I think I'm just going to use the singular indefinite article
for uncountables.  Thus "the taste of wine" would become |is
sappur nys uenun| [i 'sapp@r nyz 'y@n@].  The danger of
misunderstanding is very low, methinks.


Indeed.


  If we were talking
about a specific wine, we could use the definite article and
treat the wine as countable (since specific brands or
generations of wine are countable): |is sappur ys uenun|
"the taste of the wine".


Looks OK to me :) .


>
> In Narbonósc, there is a partitive article of the form "ne/na" (which
> exists only in the singular). It is derived from "em+e" and "em+a"
(like
> "du" is "de+le").

Pretty cool.


Thanks! :)))

Christophe Grandsire.

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