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glesna ñعăl š-šelyat, ma-ši ñعăl L-LeRD.NB : mass nouns almost always take the definite article. Thus, le-حlib, depending on context, is variously translated into English as "milk", "some milk", or "the milk". Mass nouns occur without the definite article only in a very limited number of special circumstances. There are a small number of nouns (like "atay") which never take the definite article under any circumstances.NB : (Reference Grammar) the Moroccan definite article is also widely used in referring to categories as a whole, in which case it is often omitted in English translation or rendered by "some" or the idefinite article.

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