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Hi! Benct Philip Jonsson writes: >... > It is interesting to see how in German all forms of the > definite article occur in more than one slot in the > declension, der in particular being ambiguous, so that it is > in practice the combination of endings on the article and > noun, combined with lexical knowledge what gender the noun > is, which enables the listener/reader to determine which > case and number a given instance of article + noun > represents. >... I particularly like pairs like: mit den Jungen - with the boys (plural) ohne den Jungen - without the boy (singular) Here, you need knowledge about the case the prepositions demand to understand the number. :-) **Henrik