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  • Take a look at the definite article for instance, which is denoted by a suffix in the Scandinavian languages ("bord-et", "banan-en"), and only precedes nouns as a distinct word in the West Germanic manner when the nouns are qualified by adjectives ("det nye hus" instead of "huset").

    languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES. 2004

  • Ser huset rigtigt saadan ud eller har du lavet gejl i Photoshop?

    Efter lidt for mange pivoer.. « Skid Roche 2008

  • Ser huset rigtigt saadan ud eller har du lavet gejl i Photoshop?

    Efter lidt for mange pivoer.. « Skid Roche 2008

  • While in English, German, French and other Romance languages the determination (definite or indefinite) occurs by placing an element beforehand, the Nordic languages add a desinence to the noun: the house, das Haus, la maison, la casa, huset (indefinite form: hus).

    Understanding Each Other in Different Languages 2009

  • Det tysta huset: roman/översatt från turkiskan av Dilek Gür.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 - Bio-bibliography 2006

  • For sure I have lost information in battery loss, accidents (lost my palm V in MIT huset at UMU from the 4th floor) but I've learned, just as all companies I've been working with has learned (organizational learning), that the more I outsource and trust in the 'net' and artifacts the better defined my use of them becomes.

    Outsourcing my digital life Erik Stolterman 2008

  • This sort of thing, however, is paralleled in North Germanic languages like Swedish e.g. -en in pojken or -et in huset where their definite suffixes arose in the same way that Etruscan appears to have been evolving.

    Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan 2007

  • Stevie Wonder finnes det ikke en eneste plate med i huset.

    Agirra strives on Torill 2005

  • HAVING! to know how many uncracked sidewalk slabs there were between svenska huset and the library. and now that i can't remember that number ... i feel slightly panicked. my shower today lasted 23 minutes. other factors are at work: no decent water pressure, facewash that clings to the rest of your body as you wash it off your face, hopefully some other factors.

    pojken Diary Entry pojken 2003

  • Rikt var huset: varhelst som du skådade, mötte ditt öga fyllda källrar och proppade skåp och rågade visthus.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

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