Are you a native Slavic or East-Asian speaker? the carries with it the implication of (о чем я уже говорил) or (вы знаете уже какой) a means один _____ (но мо

Are you a native Slavic or East-Asian speaker? the carries with it the implication of (о чем я уже говорил) or (вы знаете уже какой) a means один _____ (но может быть вы не знаете кокой) Ø (no article) means the noun is probably abstract. -----BREAK BREAK----- Where you might get all twisted up and confused is with concrete collective/uncountable nouns. These are exceptions and work very differently. Examples are: pizza, foliage, pasta, people, etc. You simply have to memorize them. the still means the X that has a clear referent because we have already discussed it or it's clear from surrounding context a can be one of two things: - a countable quantity of an uncountable noun, e.g., "a pizza" usually means "a unit of pizza; a pizza pie" - shorthand for a type of or category of an uncountable noun, e.g., "linguine is a pasta" means "linguine is a type of pasta"