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Interesting how this varies by language. Dutch doesn't have it (I've never learned it with a definite article), German and French still use it mostly as far as
by Freak_NL 10y ago
Interesting how this varies by language. Dutch doesn't have it (I've never learned it with a definite article), German and French still use it mostly as far as I can tell, and in English it is gradually disappearing.
- dghf 10y agoFrench does it for every country (as far as I know): la France, l'Angleterre, les Etats-Unis. It's not something specific to Ukraine.
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- Rexxar 10y agoThere are some exceptions : Israël, Taïwan, Cuba, Haïti
- dghf 10y agoThat I did not know. I found a page with a bunch more of them: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-cuba-article.215749/ https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-cuba-article.2157... No one seems to really know why.