Linguistic term for words like 'a', 'an', and 'the' in English, or their equivalents in other languages.
English articles are placed before nouns.
Japanese does not have articles.
zero article; having no article
indefinite article
partitive article
From 冠 (kan, 'crown; heading') + 詞 (shi, 'word; part of speech'), a Meiji-era coinage for the grammatical concept of articles.