Definite: definiteness or state
Definiteness is typically a feature of nouns, adjectives and articles. Its value distinguishes whether we are talking about something known and concrete, or something general or unknown. In Portuguese, this feature applies only to determiners. It can be marked on definite and indefinite articles.
Ind: indefinite
Examples
- um cachorro
Def: definite
Examples
- o cachorro
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 2 different values: Def, Ind.
29507 tokens (14%) have a non-empty value of Definite.
21 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite.
11 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite.
The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: pt-pos/DET (29471; 14% instances), pt-pos/PRON (22; 0% instances), pt-pos/PROPN (13; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances).
DET
29471 pt-pos/DET tokens (88% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Definite co-occurred: PronType=Art (29471; 100%), Number=Sing (22759; 77%), Gender=Masc (15885; 54%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Def(26462; 90% of non-emptyDefinite): o, a, os, as, esta, o(s), umInd(3009; 10% of non-emptyDefinite): um, uma, outra, Nada, o, unsEMPTY(3903): sua, seu, este, esta, seus, suas, esse, todos, o, qualquer
| Paradigm o | Ind | Def |
|---|---|---|
| Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | o | o, os, a |
| Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | os, o | |
| Gender=Masc|Number=Unsp | o(s) | |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Sing | a, as | |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Plur | as | |
| Gender=Fem | as, a | |
| Number=Sing | o | |
| a, as |
PRON
22 pt-pos/PRON tokens (0% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Definite co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (22; 100%), Case=EMPTY (22; 100%), PronType=Art (22; 100%), Gender=Masc (18; 82%), Number=Sing (15; 68%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Def(22; 100% of non-emptyDefinite): o, os, a, as, queEMPTY(6903): que, se, o, ele, isso, quem, lhe, tudo, eles, ela
PROPN
13 pt-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Definite co-occurred: Gender=Masc (13; 100%), Number=Sing (13; 100%).
PROPN tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Ind(13; 100% of non-emptyDefinite): umEMPTY(18114): Paulo, São, Portugal, Brasil, José, Porto, Governo, Nacional, Lisboa, João
ADP
1 pt-pos/ADP tokens (0% of all ADP tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
ADP tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Def(1; 100% of non-emptyDefinite): daEMPTY(34971): de, em, a, por, para, com, como, entre, sobre, sem
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: Def.
18999 tokens (7%) have a non-empty value of Definite.
4 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite.
1 lemmas (20%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: pt-pos/DET (18999; 7% instances).
DET
18999 pt-pos/DET tokens (45% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Definite co-occurred: PronType=Art (18999; 100%), Number=Sing (15867; 84%), Gender=Masc (10756; 57%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Definite:
Def(18999; 100% of non-emptyDefinite): o, a, os, asEMPTY(23518): o, a, os, um, uma, as, sua, seu, seus, cada
Definite in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]