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Preliminary Recommendations

Language-specific features: Definiteness

In Danish, nouns can be marked for definiteness with the enclitic article; in singular common gender: `-(e)n'; singular neuter: `-(e)t'; and in plural: `-(e)ne' (no gender distinction).

The order of inflectional endings is: number + enclitic article + genitive suffix, e.g.

`lampe' + `s'
`lampe' + `r' + `ne' + `s'

which respectively give the tag combinations

sb_comm_sg_indef_gen
and
sb_comm_pl_def_gen.

Attribute Value Da. example Da. tag
Definiteness indefinite (en) lampe sb_comm_sg_indef
definite lampen sb_comm_sg_def