DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. Like adjectives, Italian determiners typically agree with the noun they modify for gender and number, e.g. questo libro “this book” (masculin singular), i libri “the books” (masculin plural), la carta “the paper” (feminine singular).
In Italian, usually a nominal allows for one DET modifier only, with the following exceptions:
- predeterminers (or addeterminers), which are also tagged
DET. For example: Tutti gli amici “All the friends”. - possessive adjectives, which following the UD guidelines are also tagged as
DET. For example: Mio padre “my father”, la mia macchina lit. “the my car”, la figlia mia lit. “the daughter my”
Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags:
RD: Definite article
RI: Indefinite article
DE: Exclamative determiner
DI: Indefinite determiner
DQ: Interrogative determiner
DR: Relative determiner
DD: Demonstrative determiner
T: Predeterminer
AP: Possessive adjective
Examples
- definite articles: il, lo, la, gli “the”
- indefinite articles: un, uno, una “a, an”
- demonstrative determiners: questo “this”, e.g. Ho visto questa macchina ieri. “I saw this car yesterday”
- interrogative determiners: quale “which”, e.g. Quale macchina ti piace? “Which car do you like?”
- relative determiners: quale “which”, e.g. Mi chiedo quale macchina ti piace. “I wonder which car you like”
- indefinite determiners: ogni “any”, tutti “all”, alcuni “some”, nessuno, nessuna “no”, e.g. Non abbiamo nessuna macchina disponibile “We have no car available”
- exclamative determiners: quale in Quale disastro! “What a mess!”
DET in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sla] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]