• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    I’m not sure it’s kosher to count à la and de la as separate definite articles.

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      13 days ago

      I don’t speak French but from my understanding, they fulfill the function, cases in German do. But than again you could add “to the” and “of the” in English

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        13 days ago

        Strangely, le itself is missing from this list, probably the most obvious definite article