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.
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.