Definite: definiteness or state
The feature Definite is marked to identify definite and indefinite articles.
Ind: indefinite
Examples
- un cane “a dog”
- una bella giornata “a good day”
Def: definite
Examples
- il cane “the dog”
- gli altri “others”
Red: reduced
Not used.
Com: complex
Not used.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 2 different values: Def, Ind.
41746 tokens (14%) have a non-empty value of Definite.
36 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite.
20 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: it-pos/DET (41744; 14% instances), it-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances).
DET
41744 it-pos/DET tokens (88% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Definite co-occurred: PronType=Art (41741; 100%), Number=Sing (31355; 75%), Gender=Masc (21451; 51%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Def(37180; 89% of non-emptyDefinite): il, la, i, l’, le, gli, lo, l’, the, lesInd(4564; 11% of non-emptyDefinite): un, una, un’, uno, un’, A, dei, Une, delle, l’EMPTY(5804): quale, sua, suo, ogni, questo, loro, che, questa, tutti, suoi
| Paradigm lo | Ind | Def |
|---|---|---|
| Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | lo | |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Plur | le | |
| Number=Sing | l' | l' |
PRON
2 it-pos/PRON tokens (0% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Definite co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (2; 100%), PronType=Art (2; 100%), Gender=Fem (2; 100%), Number=Plur (2; 100%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Def(2; 100% of non-emptyDefinite): leEMPTY(11255): si, che, chi, cui, ci, lo, ne, qual, quanto, mi
Definite in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]