Linguistic term for words like 'a', 'an', and 'the' in English, or their equivalents in other languages.
英語の冠詞は名詞の前に置かれる。
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.