In the Scandinavian languages definite articles are suffixed to nouns.

The English articles ‘the’ and ‘a’ present a real headache for learners of English that don’t have articles in their native language.

When indefinite pronouns function as quantifiers, they cooccur in partitive structures.

Among the mIE languages, Germanic, Fench and Italian are unique in having two ways of expressing existence or non-existence: 1) with an expletive subject, 2) the indefinite pronoun is the subject. There is nothing in this box. Nothing‘s in this box. The first sentence is neutral, simply asserting the absence of an object, while the…

English everyone (+ singular) and all (+ plural) differ in that the former always refers to humans, the latter to humans or nonhumans. Everyone knows the answer. All know the answer. However all has many other functions and is rarely used as a pronoun. Even the example just given sounds odd. More normal is They…