Language Log ยป "Steak the First"
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59077On the use of "the" in Japanese, a language otherwise without articles:
Japanese may not have a definite article in its regular grammar, but it has one of sorts in its irregular grammar, since I would like to call the "za" we've been examining in this post a "hyperdefinite article".
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