indefinite article

noun

indefinite article

noun

1

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun.

The English Indefinite Article, "a" or "an", is more frequently used that the Italian Indefinite Article, "un", "uno", "una".1884, Napoleone Perini, “On the Use of the Indefinite Article”, in An Italian Conversation Grammar, page 98:
In the indefinite article, we must note the plural in i, due to the influence of the plural li of the definite article[.]1921, Harry Egerton Ford, “Part II. Morphology”, in Modern Provençal Phonology and Morphology:

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The main literary dialect of ancient Greek ... has a definite article, but no indefinite article.2018, Kory Stamper, Word by Word, page 28:

Antonyms: definite article
Hypernyms: article

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