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- JohnLv 71 十年前最愛解答
冠詞是印歐語系和閃含語系的諸語中，位於名詞或名詞片語之前或之後，在句子里主要是對名詞起限定作用的詞。冠詞是一種虛詞。在漢語，日語等語言中沒有與之相對應的詞性。
冠詞的分類及其作用
定冠詞（例如英語中的the）用來限定這個冠詞後面的名詞是講話者明確指出的某個特定的事物；
不定冠詞（例如英語中的a/an）用來表示這個冠詞後面的名詞是指某一類特定事物中的一個，但具體是哪一個並不重要；
部分冠詞（例如法語中的du/de la）用來表示這個冠詞後面的名詞的量是不確定的。
此外，在某些語言中（比如法語），同一個名詞的陽性與陰性形式，單數與複數形式的讀音完全一樣，通過前面不同的冠詞的使用，可以讓聽話者區分出這個名詞的不同形式。
An article is usually a word that is next to a noun or any word that modifies a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.[1]
Articles can have various functions[2]
a definite article (English the) is used before singular and plural nouns that refer to a particular member of a group. (The cat on the mat is black.)
an indefinite article (English a, an) is used before singular nouns that refer to any member of a group. (A cat is a mammal).
a partitive article indicates an indefinite quantity of a mass noun; there is no partitive article in English, though the words some or any often have that function. An example is French du / de la / des, as in Voulez-vous du café ? ("Do you want some coffee?" or "Do you want coffee?")
a zero article is the absence of an article (e.g. English indefinite plural), used in some languages in contrast with the presence of one. Linguists hypothesize the absence as a zero article based on the X-bar theory.
