Logos

Words / cls.spa.determinante

un

Identity

Lemma
un
Part of speech
cls.spa.determinanteread off the URL segment (in turn parsed from the LEXEME id by lib/routes.ts’s posAndLemmaOf), because Lexeme carries no pos field yet (LAN-217/LAN-274). This route is built to prefer node.data.pos as the field once that migration lands; until then, the id is the only source and this line says so rather than hiding it.
Frequency rank
frequency rank: not recorded. Nobody has written this yetnot recorded
Gloss
The determiner presenting a referent as one the hearer cannot yet identify, taking four shapes for gender and number.

The indefinite article covers two of the three values the definiteness dimension admits, a referent the speaker has in mind and a referent nobody has in mind, and it draws no distinction between them. That contrast surfaces instead in the mood of a following relative clause, which is why the mood record and this word are two views of one fact. The masculine singular shape is shortened before its noun, which is the same shortening a small closed set of other words undergoes.

Sourced from:

  • Nueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  • A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin

Paradigm

Non-finite forms (no person, so no coordinate in the five-column grid):

  • unasThe plural indefinite article, feminine, sharing the masculine plural's approximator reading.
  • unaThe feminine singular indefinite article, silent in the same way as its masculine counterpart on the difference between a specific and a non specific referent.
  • unosThe plural indefinite article, masculine, marking an approximate or unindividuated group rather than a single unidentified referent.
  • unThe masculine singular indefinite article, shortened before its noun and silent on the difference between a specific and a non specific referent.

Class memberships

has-a edges to CLASS objects (06-surface.md §5.2) — the door back into the grammar. Subsumption (is-a) is not available here: it is same-type-only (A3), so a LEXEME cannot is-a a CLASS.

Examples

Each example declares its dialect and tier, per 06-surface.md §5.2 (“the interface ranks and labels rather than silently mixing registers”).

No examples are recorded for this lexeme (Lexeme.examples is optional; absent key = unstated, per lib/schema/nodes.ts’s own note — never a stub sentence invented to fill the section).

Where the grammar discusses this word

05-vocabulary.md §10.9’s own requirement: “a vocab entry links back to the grammar.” has-a edges to CATEGORY and inbound selects edges, both real graph edges rather than a generated cross-reference.

No CATEGORY membership or selects edge is recorded for this lexeme.