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In English there are two articles ' a ' and ' the '. The definite article is ' the ' and the indefinite article is ' a ' and the same articles are used for all nouns, none of which have gender.
Indefinite article
The indefinite article in Afrikaans is 'n which means a or an. This is never capitalised and when it occurs at the beginning of a sentence the first letter of the next word is turned into a capital instead.
e.g. 'n Tafel vir vier
Definite article
The definite article in Afrikaans '
die
' and is used where in English we use '
the
' .
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