Re: Articles

Neeraj Mathur wrote:
IE languages often express these kinds of general sentences - called
'gnomics' - with special moods / tenses of the verb, rather than
articles. In Hindi, 'kutte khatarna:k hote hai~' expresses the meaning
'members of the category 'dog' are, in general, dangerous'.

Ah!!! I remember a line "pya:r binA, ghar sirf maka:n hota:".

Classical Greek does this with an indicative aorist.

Does an example come to mind?

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