The Definite Article
Like English, nouns can be either definite or indefinite. For example, "a king" is indefinite while "the king" is definite - the reader knows which king. In English nouns can be definite because they have possessives ("my king"), becuase they are proper nouns ("King Edward V"), or because they have the possessive article ("the king"). These set of possibilities are true to Hebrew as well. Unlike English, the article is attached to the noun rather than being found as a separate word. The basic form of the article consists in attaching the letter he with an a class vowel to a noun and then doubling the first consonant of the noun. The following examples summarize this concept: