German articles (dialect case study)

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Articles in Rhine Franconian underly the same principles as articles in High German. Except that the dialect doesn't have genitive case.

Definite Articles

Note that the letter E represents a schwa here (except in the combination IE).

	(m)	(f)	(n)	pl
nom	de	die	es	die
dat	em	dà	em	de
acc	de	die	es	die

Stressed definite articles (which could be considered demonstrative pronouns?) are closer to High German:

	(m)	(f)	(n)	pl
nom	der	die	dass	die
dat	demm	der	demm	denne
acc	denne	die	dass	die

Indefinite Articles

Note that the letter E represents a schwa here (except in kenn derivatives).

	(m)	(f)	(n)	pl
nom	e	e	e	ke(nn)
dat	me	rà	me	kenne
acc	e	e	e	ke(nn)

The stressed form of the indefinite article is the declined number 1.

There is no indefinite article in plural, but kenn (High German kein) is given here, because this is one of the words that are declined like the indefinite article (including plural forms).

The N in kenn can be dropped if the following word starts with certain consonants, following (approximately?) the same rules as in Luxembourgish.

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