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• Afrikaans: die (af)
• Albanian: (definite form endings are used, e.g.:) -a, -i, (after k, g, or h) -u
• Amharic: (-u, -w) (masculine) (-wa, -itwa, -ätwa) (feminine) (final enclitic suffixes)
• Arabic: الـ (ar) (al-) (written together with the following words, "l" assimilates with sun letters)
  Egyptian Arabic: الـ (el), (written together with the following words, "l" assimilates with sun letters and ج, ك)
• Aragonese: lo
• Aramaic: ־א, ־י, ־תא
• Armenian: -ը (-ə), (before vowels) -ն (-n)
• Aromanian: -lu
• Asturian: el (ast)
• Bashkir: not used in Bashkir
• Basque: -a (eu)
• Belarusian: not used in Belarusian
• Belizean Creole: di
• Bengali: suffixes based on number, formality and animacy
  (plural animate) -রা (bn) (-ra), -এরা (bn) (-era)
  (plural, informal, inanimate) -গুলা (bn) (-gula), (plural, formal, inanimate) -গুলো (bn) (-gulō)
  (singular informal) -টা (bn) (-ṭa), (singular formal) -টি (bn) (-ṭi)
• Bikol Central: an (bcl)
• Breton: al (br) (before L), an (br) (before D, N, T, silent H, and vowels), ar (br) (before other consonants)
• Bulgarian: (attached suffixes are used, -ът, -та, -то, etc.)
• Burmese: not used in Burmese
• Catalan: el (ca) m, la (ca) f els (ca) m pl les (ca) f pl, (salat dialects) es (ca) m, sa (ca) f, es (ca) m pl, ets (ca) m pl (before a word beginning with a vowel sound), sos (ca) m pl (after amb (ca) (with)), ses (ca) f pl,
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: not used in Mandarin
• Chuukese: ewe, we
• Coptic:
  Bohairic: ⲡⲓ- (pi-)
  Sahidic: ⲡ- (p-)
• Cornish: an
• Czech: not used in Czech
• Dalmatian: el
• Danish: -en (da) c or -et (da) n (singular, no adjective or genitive), den (da) c or det (da) n (singular, before adjective or genitive), -ene or -ne pl (plural, no adjective or genitive), de (da) pl (plural, before adjective or genitive)
• Dutch: de (nl), het (nl)
• Egyptian:
  Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian: not used
  Late Egyptian:
  
  (pꜣ)
• Esperanto: la (eo)
• Estonian: not used in Estonian
• Faroese: (after noun) -in; (before adjectives) tann, hin (fo)
• Finnish: not used in Finnish
  Colloquial Finnish : se (fi)
• French: le (fr) m, la (fr) f, les (fr) pl, l’ (fr) (before a vowel or a mute h)
• Friulian: il
• Galician: o (gl), a (gl) f, os (gl) m, as (gl) f pl
• Georgian: not used in Georgian
  Old Georgian: იგი (igi)
• German: der (de) m, die (de) f or pl, das (de) n
  Alemannic German: de
  Central Franconian: dä
  Silesian: dr
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰 (sa)
• Greek:
  Ancient: ὁ (ho)
  Epic: not used, ὁ (ho) (rare)
  Modern: ο (el) (o)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: i' sg, eⁿ' pl
• Hajong: -ৰৗ
• Hawaiian: ka, ke sg; nā pl
• Hebrew: ה־ (he) (ha-) (written together with the following word)
• Hindi: not used in Hindi
• Hungarian: a (hu) (before consonant), az (hu) (before vowel)
• Icelandic: -inn, hinn (is)
• Ido: la (io), le (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Ilocano:
  (common noun, core) dagiti pl,
  (common noun, core) ti sg,
  (common noun, oblique) iti sg,
  (common noun, oblique) kadagiti pl,
  (person, core) da pl,
  (person, core) ni sg,
  (person, oblique) kada pl
  (person, oblique) ken ni sg,
• Indonesian: si (id), sang (id), itu (id), al (id), -nya (id)
• Interlingua: le (ia)
• Irish: an (ga) sg, na pl
  Old Irish: in m or f, a n
• Istriot: el
• Italian: il (it) m, lo (it) m, la (it) f, i (it) m pl, gli (it) m pl, le (it) f pl
• Japanese: not used in Japanese, その (ja) (sono), 正に (ja) (まさに, masani), 正しく (ja) (まさしく, masashiku)
• Jarawa: ɖi
• Kazakh: not used in Kazakh (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)
• Khmer: not used in Khmer
• Korean: not used in Korean
• Ladin: l
• Ladino: איל (el)
• Lao: not used in Lao
• Latin: not used in Latin
  Medieval Latin: ille (la), ly
  Vulgar Latin: ille (la), ipse (la)
• Lithuanian: not used in Lithuanian
• Low German: de (nds)
• Macedonian: see Appendix:Macedonian articles
• Malay: not used in Malay
  (animal, rarely necessary) sang (ms)
  (if replaceable by it, rarely necessary) -nya (ms)
  (if replaceable by that, rarely necessary) itu (ms)
  (if replaceable by this, rarely necessary) ini (ms)
  (person, rarely necessary) si (ms)
• Maltese: il-
• Maori: te (mi) (Singular), ngā (mi) (Plural)
• Marshallese: eo sg, ro pl (for humans only), ko pl (for non-humans only)
• Middle English: þe, the
• Mirandese: l
• Mòcheno: der m, de f, s n, de pl
• Mongolian: not used in Mongolian
• Norman: l'
• Northern Kankanay:
  (focus marker, past referential common noun) din,
  (focus marker, personal) si,
  (focus marker, recent referential common noun) san,
  (focus marker, specific common noun) nan,
  (non-focus marker, past referential common noun) isdin,
  (non-focus marker, personal) ken
  (non-focus marker, recent referential common noun) issan,
  (non-focus marker, specific common noun) isnan,
  (non-focus marker, unspecific common noun) is,
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: det (no) n, den (no) f or m, -et (no) n, -en (no) m, -a (no) f
  Nynorsk: det (nn) n, den f or m, -et n, -en m, -a f
• Occitan: lo (oc) m, eth (oc) m (Pyrenean Gascon) la (oc) f, era (oc) f (Pyrenean Gascon), los (oc) m pl, eths (oc) m pl (Pyrenean Gascon), las (oc) f pl, eras (oc) (Pyrenean Gascon), es (oc) pl (Aranese)
• Old Dutch: thie
• Old English: sē (ang)
• Old Saxon: thē
• Persian: not used in Persian; را (fa) (râ) for definite direct object
• Pipil: ne
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: t'
• Polish: not used in Polish
• Portuguese: o (pt) m, a (pt) f, os (pt) m pl, as (pt) f pl
• Rapa Nui: te
• Romani: o m, i f, e pl
• Romanian: -ul, -a, cel (ro), cea (ro)
• Romansch: il
• Russian: not used in Russian
• Samoan: le
• Sardinian: su m, sa f
• Scots: the
• Scottish Gaelic: an
• Serbo-Croatian: not used in Serbo-Croatian
• Sicilian: lu (scn)
• Sinhalese: not used in Sinhalese
• Slovak: not used in Slovak
• Slovene: not used in Slovene
• Spanish: el (es) m, la (es) f, los (es) m pl, las (es) f pl, lo (es) n
• Swahili: ya
• Swedish: den (sv), -en (sv)
• Tagalog: ang (tl)
• Tamil: not used in Tamil (demonstratives serve a similar purpose)
• Tatar: not used in Tatar (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)
• Thai: เดอะ (də̀)
• Tok Pisin: dispela
• Tongan: te
• Turkish: not used in Turkish (use demonstrative adjectives with subjects or the accusative with objects instead)
• Tuvaluan: te
• Ukrainian: not used in Ukrainian
• Urdu: not used in Urdu
• Venetan: el (vec)
• Veps: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: not used in Vietnamese
• Volapük: (♂♀, animate or inanimate, usually used with non-Volapük words) el (vo), (♂) hiel (vo), (♂♀) jiel (vo)
• Võro: please add this translation if you can
• Votic: not used in Votic
• Walloon: li (wa), el (wa)
• Welsh: y (cy)
• West Frisian: de (fy)
• Yiddish: דער m (der), די f (di), דאָס n (dos), די pl (di)
• Zazaki: be (diq), ebe (diq), eve (diq)