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German Articles
In English, learning about articles is very straightforward. Once again though, German is just a little more complex. An article is the word before a noun and they fall into two categories. Definite and indefinite articles.
In English, the definite article is "the". It is said to be definite because when you ask for "the" XXXX, then you are explicitly defining what it is you want. In German, there is not 1, but 3 definite articles, based on the gender of the noun. "der" is the masculine definite article, "die" is the feminine definite article and "das" is the neuter definite article.
Indefinite articles are indefinite because they relate to a general group of things. For example, asking for "a" beer means that you don't care what sort of beer it is, as long as it is a beer! There are a couple more indefinite articles in English, such as "an" and "some". Once again, German has 3 indefinite articles. "ein" is the masculine, "eine" is the feminine and "ein" is again the neuter.
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