Re: French gender
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 8, 2001, 3:37 |
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D Tse wrote:
> Don't all feminine nouns that start with a stressed vowel take "el"
> instead of "la" in Spanish? el aguila, for example.
Yes. La cannot be followed by a stressed /a/. Apparently, this goes
back to the Old Spanish form of the article, _ela_, where the _a_ became
dropped before stressed _a_. At least, that's the explanation I've
read.
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