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Articles

There is only one article, the definite article, æl‘, which is placed before the noun, agreeing with it in case and number.

	singular	plural
direct	ež/ežd	ežno
oblique	ežəre	ežnore

In the singular direct case two forms of the article are listed. The choice between the two depends on the first phoneme of the following word:

• ež is placed before a word beginning with a consonant.
• ežd is placed before a word beginning with a vowel.

Examples:

ež pɔge čəjnnos
the person is singing

ežd ɔne čəjnnos
the woman is singing

The definite article, both in its singular and plural forms and in any case, can merge with some prepositions to form the so-called articled prepositions. Such forms will be analyzed in a following section.