Los articulos el/la/los/las se usan cuando hablamos de algo que ya conocemos, ?No?

Question

Los articulos el/la/los/las se usan cuando hablamos de algo que ya conocemos, ¿verdad?

Answer 1

Eso es. The car is the car, no matter what. The dog, the cat, etc.

Answer 2

I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but it sounds more like the function of a relative pronoun.

el que la que los que las que el cual la cual los cual las cual

Me gustaría ayudarlo con su pregunta, pero no intiendo nada de ella. (you can't use la instead of ella here, if that is what you are asking)

Answer 3

Shaynelynch:

Have a look at this page and see if the answer you are looking for is in here:

Definite Article(s)

Answer 4

hether the noun is known to the reader or the listener

(from the reference article provided by Paralee).

I know what this is supposed to mean and I (more or less) agree with the idea but I'm not sure that this is a good way to express it. When you ask "What's the thing on the table?", Is that thin known to the listener? Perhaps/perhaps not. What is known to the listener, is which thing you are talking about. The term "definite" article means that the article refers to some specific thing (noun) and not to some undefined/unspecified member of a general category/class (for which one uses the indefinite article).

• So you think his question is about the difference between indefinite and definite articles? Sounds plausible. - qfreed Oct 14, 2009