Editing Suret language (section)

=== Determinative ===
When it comes to a [[determinative]] (like in English ''this'', ''a'', ''the'', ''few'', ''any'', ''which'', etc.), Suret generally has an absence of an [[Article (grammar)#Zero article|article]] (English "the''"''), unlike other Semitic languages such as [[Arabic language|Arabic]], which does use a [[definite article]] ({{langx|ar|ال}}, ''al-''). [[Demonstratives]] (''āhā'', ''āy''/''āw'' and ''ayyāhā/awwāhā'' translating to "[[Demonstrative|this]]", "[[that]]" and "that one over there", respectively, demonstrating [[Demonstrative#Distal and proximal demonstratives|proximal, medial and distal deixis]]) are commonly utilised instead (e.g. ''āhā betā'', "this house"), which can have the sense of "the". An indefinite article ("a(n)") can mark definiteness if the word is a [[direct object]] (but not a subject) by using the prepositional prefix "''l-''" paired with the proper suffix (e.g. ''šāqil qālāmā'', "he takes '''a''' pen" vs. ''šāqil-'''lāh''' qālāmā'', "he takes '''the''' pen"). [[Article (grammar)#Partitive article|Partitive]] articles may be used in some speech (e.g. ''bayyīton '''xačča''' miyyā?'', which translates to "do you [pl.] want '''some''' water?").<ref>Solomon, Zomaya S. (1997). ''Functional and other exotic sentences in Assyrian Aramaic'', Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies, XI/2:44–69.</ref>

In place of a definite article, Ancient Aramaic used the emphatic state, formed by the addition of the suffix: "''-ā''" for generally masculine words and "''-t(h)ā''" (if the word already ends in ''-ā'') for feminine. The definite forms were ''pallāxā'' for "the (male) worker" and ''pallāxtā'' for "the (female) worker". Beginning even in the Classical Syriac era, when the prefixed preposition "''d-''" came into more popular use and replaced state Morphology for marking possession, the emphatic (definite) form of the word became dominant and the definite sense of the word [[Phonological change|merged]] with the indefinite sense so that ''pālāxā'' became "a/the (male) worker" and ''pālaxtā'' became "a/the (female) worker."