冠词

冠詞
guàncí
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 article (grammar)

Examples

HSK 3
Hànyǔ méiyǒu guàncí, kěshì Yīngyǔ hé Fǎyǔ dōu yǒu.
Chinese has no articles, but English and French both do.
HSK 6
Déyǔ de guàncí yào suízhe míngcí de xìng hé gé biànhuà.
In German, the article changes with the noun's gender and case.

Tips

memory
冠 here means "to cap, to put on top": the article sits in front of the noun like a hat. English has a 定冠词 "definite article" (the) and 不定冠词 "indefinite article" (a, an). The rarer synonym is 冠形词.

Stroke Order

冠 guān
词 cí