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What is it?

Articles are in English put in front of nouns (objects, people, animals, etc.) to determine whether we are dealing with any object like a car or a specific object, the car.

The grammatical names we will use when dealing with articles and nouns are: Singular, Plural, Indefinite and Definite.

Singularmeansa single objecte.g.a car
Pluralmeansmany objectse.g.cars
Indefinitemeansany object(s)e.g.a car/some cars
Definitemeansspecific object(s)e.g.the car/the cars
The Rules

In Danish the articles are en (Common Noun Class) and et (Neuter Noun Class).

We use the term Noun Class for the two 'genders' Common and Neuter.
In Danish these are not the conventional male and female as seen in many languages like in Spanish: 'un' (masculin) and 'una' (feminin). Hence, we prefer the term Noun Class.
  • Prefixed (put in front) when Indefinite
  • Suffixed (at the end) when Definite
Singular Indefinite Singular Definite
Common en [noun] [noun]+(e)n
Neuter et [noun] [noun]+(e)t
If the noun already ends on an 'e' the 'e' in brackets is omitted.
Examples

Common Noun Class (en)

Singular IndefiniteSingular Definite
en bil
bilen
a carthe car
en stol
stolen
a chairthe chair
en blomst
blomsten
a flowerthe flower

Neuter Noun Class (et)

Singular IndefiniteSingular Definite
et hus
huset
a housethe house
et bord
bordet
a tablethe table
et træ
træet
a treethe tree