DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc.
Examples
- articles (a closed class indicating definiteness, specificity or givenness): le, la, les, li , une, un
- possessive determiners: mon, mes, ma, ses, son, sa, s’, si, nostre, vostre, noz, lor
- demonstrative determiners: e.g., ceste, cest, cil, cel, cele, celui, cestui, ces, icil, icel
- interrogative determiners: quel, qel “En qel endroit sont il?”
- relative determiners: quel, qel, quele “Ne savons el qel voie tienge”
- quantity/quantifier determiners: tous, toutes, tot, autre, autres, cascun, maint, molt, tel
DET in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]