Cataloging & Serials

Initial Articles to be Disregarded in Title Entries

Purpose: To list initial articles to be disregarded in title entries, so that titles can file correctly in the catalog. These articles need to have the correct filing indicators set or be dropped from the entry, depending on the MARC field in which they are entered. For more information on this, see Filing Indicators for Monographic Records.

For steps on entering diacritics, see Entry of Diacritics on Voyager.

Note: There are no initial articles in the Slavic languages--Russian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Ukranian, White Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croation, Slovenian, Macedonian, Slovak, Wendic, or Latin. 

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• List of articles by article name
• List of articles by language

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List of articles by article name

+ before an indefinite article indicates that the same form is also used for cardinal numeral "one". Therefore, care must be taken to distinguish meaing.

* followed by "que" in Spanish and Portuguese these are not articles

Article	Language
* a	English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Portuguese, Yiddish
a'	Gaelic, Scottish
al-	Arabic
am	Gaelic, Scottish
an	English, Gaelic, Scottish, Yiddish
an t-	Gaelic, Scottish
* as	Portuguese
az	Hungarian
+ bir	Turkish
das	German, Yiddish
de	Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish
dei	Norwegian
den	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
der	German, Yiddish
det	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
di	Danish, Yiddish
die	Afrikaans, German, Yiddish
dos	Yiddish
+ een, eene	Dutch
+ egy	Hungarian
+ ei	Norwegian
+ ein	German, Norwegian, Yiddish
+ eine	German, Yiddish
+ eit	Norwegian
* el	Spanish
el-	Arabic
+ en	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
+ et	Danish, Norwegian
+ ett	Swedish
+ eyn, eyne	Yiddish
gl', gli	Italian
ha-	Hebrew
hai	Classical Greek, Modern Greek
he	Hawaiian
he (add diacritic)	Classical Greek, Modern Greek
he-	Hebrew
+ heis	Modern Greek
+ hen, hena	Modern Greek
+ henas	Modern Greek
het	Dutch
hinar, hinir	Icelandic
hi, hin, hinn	Icelandic
ho	Classical Greek, Modern Greek
ho-	Hebrew
hoi	Classical Greek, Modern Greek
i	Italian
il	Italian, Old Provencal
ka	Hawaiian
ke	Hawaiian
l'	French, Italian, Old Provencal, Modern Provencal
* la	Esperanto, French, Italian, Old Provencal, Modern Provencal, Spanish
* las	Old Provencal, Spanish
le	French, Italian, Old Provencal
les	French, Old Provencal
lh'	Old Provencal
lhi	Old Provencal
li	Old Provencal, Modern Provencal
lis	Modern Provencal
lo	Italian, Old Provencal, Modern Provencal
* los	Old Provencal, Spanish
lou	Modern Provencal
lu	Modern Provencal
+ mia	Modern Greek
'n	Afrikaans, Dutch
na	Hawaiian, Gaelic, Scottish
na h-	Gaelic, Scottish
+ nje (add diacritic), nji	Albanian
ny	Manx
* + o	Hawaiian, Portuguese, Rumanian
* os	Portuguese
't	Dutch
ta	Classical Greek, Modern Greek
the	English
to	Classical Greek, Modern Greek
to (add diacritic)	Classical Greek
+ um, uma	Portuguese
umas	Portuguese
+ un	French, Italian, Modern Provencal, Rumanian, Spanish
+ un'	Italian
+ una	Italian, Old Provencal, Modern Provencal, Rumanian, Spanish
unas	Spanish
+ une	French
+ uno	Italian, Modern Provencal
unos	Spanish
+ uns	Old Provencal, Portuguese
+ us	Old Provencal
y, yn	Manx
y, yr	Welsh

 

List of Articles by Language

Language	Articles
Afrikaans	die, 'n
Albanian	nje (add diacritic), nji
Arabic	al-, el- Note: The Arabic articles "Al" and "El" in upper case proceeding proper names are regarded in filing and are treated as prefix names.
Danish	den, det, de(di)en, et
Dutch	de, het, 't, een, eene, 'n
English	a, an, the
Esperanto	la
French	le, la, l', les, un, une
Gaelic	an, am, an t-, a', na, na h-
German	der, die, das, ein, eine
Greek, Classical	ho, he (add diacritic), to, to (add diacritic), hoi, hai, ta)
Greek, Modern	ho, he (add diacritic), to, hoi, hai, ta, henas(heis)mia, hena (hen)
Hawaiian	ka, ke, na, "o emphatic", he
Hebrew	ha-, ho-, he-
Hungarian	a, az, egy
Icelandic	hinn, hin, hi, hinir, hinar
Italian	il, la, lo, i, gli, gl', le, l', un, uno, una, un'
Manx	y, yn, ny
Norwegian, Nynorsk	den, det, dei, ein, ei, eit
Norwegian, Rikamal	den, det, de, en, et
Portuguese	o, a, os, as, um, uma, uns, umas Note:the words "a" and "as" with accents in Portuguese are not articles
Provencal, Old	lo, li, le, la, l', il, lh', lhi, los, las, les, uns, us, una
Provencal, Modern	lo, lou, la, l', li, lis, lu, un, uno, una
Rumanian	un, una, o
Spanish	el, la, lo, los, las, uno, una, unos, unas Note: the use of "lo" in Spanish as an article is very restricted
Swedish	den, det, de, en, ett
Turkish	bir
Welsh	y, yr
Yiddish	der, di, die, dos, a, an, eyn, eyne