Just curious, what is your native tongue?

fonheponho 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My guess: Czech. :)

Native English speakers living for a decade or more in the Czech Republic (and picking up Czech in the process) may experience "retroactive article confusion", they may start to drop articles while speaking their mother tongue English.

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nephihaha 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My guess is something Slavic (since Slavic languages lack articles apart from Sorbian). I could be wrong. I don't think Finno-Ugric languages have them either. That's just Europe, there are plenty of such examples elsewhere — Japanese has tonnes of suffixes but no direct equivalent to this?

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hackyhacky an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> since Slavic languages lack articles apart from Sorbian

As far as I know (and as confirmed by Wikipedia [1]), Sorbian does not have articles. Maybe you are thinking of Bulgarian, which does have articles (although the definite article attaches as a suffix to the noun, rather than being an independent word).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages

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fonheponho 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

(Whether Hungarian qualifies as Finno-Ugric is up for debate, but Hungarian most definitely has determinate and indeterminate articles.)

	▲	hackyhacky an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Whether Hungarian qualifies as Finno-Ugric is up for debate, Is it up for debate? What is the argument against including Hungarian in Finno-Ugric? I mean, the "Ugric" part of Finno-Ugric is in reference to Hungarian.
	▲	machomaster 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Finnish doesn't.

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Laurel1234 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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