Catalan/L'article

Definite Masculine Feminine Singular el, l' la, l' Plural els les The elided form of the singular article, l', is used in the following cases: Before words starting with a, e, o or silent h followed by one of those letters e.g., l'article ('the article'), l'entitat ('the entity'), l'oncle ('the uncle') Before foreign words beginning with s followed by a consonant (which receive an [ə] before the s in actual pronunciation) e.g., l'Stradivarius (actually pronounced lestradivarius, as though it were written l'Estradivarius) Before stressed i, u, or silent h followed by one of those letters (stressed syllables underlined in examples below) e.g., l'Imma ('Imma', third-person reference), l'ús ('the use'), l'hivern ('the winter') Before unstressed i, u, or silent h followed by one of those letters, the full form la is used rather than the elided form l' la Immaculada ('Immaculada', third-person reference), la universitat ('the university') Indefinite Masculine Feminine Singular un una Plural uns unes