Also English: This, That, Those, These
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Ha! All three of the big East Asian languages also don't have articles. (It's also why we drop them all the time when learning to speak English.)
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Hebrew:
the: prefix "ha" ה-
in the: prefix "ba" ב-
to the: prefix "la" ל-
example:
book: ספר sefer
the book: הספר hasefer
in the book: בספר basefer
to the book: לספר lasefer
I don't get it, is Russian the worst here? I understand Finnish and Polish are pretty difficult in terms of these things as well (?).
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English is the/the