I do. The is “el/la” and a is “un/una”.

In my dad’s language and my second language, it’s “the” and “a”

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    Icelandic has no word for “a.” A noun without a definite article suffix can be either “noun” or “a noun.” Then there is a suffix for definite article (epli “apple” -> eplið “the apple”). There is also a slightly more obscure hinn/hin/hið which can mean “the” as a separate word, but that’s not really used in most situations.

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    Yes, we do.

    “Il/lo/la/i/gli/le” instead of “the”, the precise article is chosen taking in consideration gender and plurality. We even have elliptic forms with " l’ ," for words starting with a vowel.

    Then we have “un/uno/una” instead of “a”. Again elliptic form "un’ " for feminine words starting with a vowel.

    Italian here 🤌

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    Yes. In danish either “en” or “et” goes in front of nouns like this: “en kat” and “et hus”. This is equal to “a cat” and “a house”.

    If it’s in specific, it goes at the end of the word instead like this: “katten” and “huset”. This is equal to “the cat” and “the house”.

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    We don’t have either an ‘a’ or a ‘the’, but we have a ‘that’ and it’s ‘o’.

    A bird = Kuş => Bir Kuş

    If we need to specify that it is singular (like you often do with ‘a’ we say ‘one’ aka ‘bir’ instead)

    This language is Turkish, by the way.

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    o, a, os, as for “the”

    um, uma, uns, umas for “a”

    both lists mean: singular masculine, singular feminine, plural masculine, plural feminine.

    and if the gender is unknown or mixed you use the masculine

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    Funny story. I know an old Chinese man who has a stutter. When he starts a sentence he often repeats the the the the the before he gets going. It sounds like removed removed removed. So far no one has confronted him but I always worry it will happen some day.