Determiners

Determiners (Determinants)

Articles (Articles)

The apostrophized forms d' and l' are used in front of words beginning with a vowel.

The form de is the true undefinite form for plural; unes, unas rather mean some, a few. For example:

Fau de còcas. I am cooking cakes.
Fau unas còcas. I am cooking a few cakes.

Dialect variations

Gascon has slightly different forms for the indefinite articles:

The forms of the definite articles are more diversified:

In the area between Toulouse, Foix e Carcassonne, the masculine forms are le, les. These should not be regarded as French influences, since they occur in documents previous to the French presence in this area. They should rather be seen as the evolution of Latin demonstrative ille => le, whereas the evolution has been illum => lo elsewhere.
In some Pyreneans valleys (Coseran, Comenges and Bigorre), the forms are quite different:
eth, era; eths, eras.
In the northern areas, la, las may be sounded [l, ls], along with the general trend to turn non-stressed [a] into [] in this area.

Possessive Adjectives (Adjectius Possesius)

Dialect variations

Possessives in Maritime:

Possessives in Rhodanian:

Demonstrative Adjectives (Adjectius Demonstratius)

The following variations also occur in the speech.

Interrogative Adjectives (Adjectius Interrogatius)

Exclamatives

Qual, quin, quant what a, what, can be either adjectives or pronouns, and agree with number and gender:

quant (polit) animal! what a (beautiful) animal!
quantas nécias! what foolish women!

Que (de) ... so much ..., so many ... !

Indefinite Adjectives (Adjectius Indefinits)

Variable				Invariable
Singular		Plural
Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
autre other	autra	autres	autras	un pauc de a little gaire few, little pro enough fòrça, plan (de) many, much cada every, each
un one	una	unes some, few	unas
cadun, every one, each one	caduna	--	--
mantun several	mantuna	mantuns	mantunas
qualque (quauque) some, a few		qualques (quauques)
tant (tan) as much	tanta	tant, tantes	tant, tantas
tot all, the whole...	tota	totes every	totas

Negative Adjectives (Adjectius Negatius)

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