old house Icelandic: hestur, horse; hesturinn, the horse Macedonian: стол stol, chair; столот stolot, the chair; столов stolov, this chair; столон stolon, that chair Persian: sib, apple. (The Persian language does not have definite articles. It has one indefinite article 'yek' that means one. In Persian if a noun is not indefinite, it is a definite noun. "Sib e' man، means my apple. Here 'e' is like 'of' in English; an so literally "Sib e man" means the apple of mine.) Romanian: drum, road; drumul, the road (the article is just "l", "u" is a "connection vowel" ) Swedish and Norwegian: hus, house; huset, the house; if there is an adjective: det gamle (N)/gamla (S) huset, the old house Examples of prefixed definite articles: , transcribed as yeled, a boy; , transcribed as , the boy , a book; , the book; , a donation; , the donation; , a key; , the key; , a house; , the house; , an ant; , the ant; , a head; , the head; , a bed; , the bed; , an apple; , the apple; , a month; , the month; , a carrot; , the carrot; , a time; , the time A different way, limited to the definite article, is used by Latvian and Lithuanian. The noun does not change but the adjective can be defined or undefined. In Latvian: galds, a table / the table; balts galds, a white table; baltais galds, the white table. In Lithuanian: stalas, a table / the table; baltas stalas, a white table; baltasis stalas, the white table. Languages in the above table written in italics are constructed languages and are not natural, that is to say that they have been purposefully invented by an individual (or group of individuals) with some purpose in mind. They do, however, all belong to language families themselves. Esperanto is derived from European languages and therefore all of its roots are found in Proto-Indo-European and cognates can be found in real-world languages like French, German, Italian and English. Interlingua is also based on European languages but with its main source being that of Italic descendant languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, with German and Russian being secondary sources, with words from further afield (but internationally known and often borrowed) contributing to the language's vocabulary (such as words taken from Japanese, Arabic and Finnish). The result is