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-There are no plural forms for indefinite articles, as the are only ever used to refer to singular things.  <i>Denne</i> and <i>dette</i> can also be used for 'this'.
-Demonstrative articles are used when
+There are no plural forms for indefinite articles, as the are only ever used to refer to singular things.  (denne), (danne) (dette) can also be used for ''this'', ''these'', or ''those''.
-a) referring directly to something or someone.
+It should be mentioned that the distinction bewteen (den) and (dan) is not always clear.  Most mainland Scandinavians tend to pronounce them almost the same since they are used to only distinguishing between two grammatical genders in their native languages. In some cases in Icelandic, the Masculine and Feminine are pronounced the same, and are only clearly seperate in writing as (-inn) and (-in).
-*  For example: <i>Den mann</i> - That man
-b) referring back to the subject of the sentence of something previously mentioned.
-*  For example: <i>Tirer er alltid duf. Det er ikke bestimmer</i> - Animals are always stupid. This is not true.  Here 'det' is referring to the previous mentioned concept of animals being stupid.
-c) an adjective precedes the noun it stems from.
-*  For example: <i>en mann -> den strungen mann</i>
-Often the demonstrative article is used instead of the enclitic article in speech because saying 'den strungen mann' is also the same as saying 'strungen mannen'
+It is common for both (den) and (dan) to be pronounced [dɛn].  Likewise, if an emphasis is being put on the word, it can be pronouned as [den].  This happens when the speaker is talking about a specific object, similar to the difference between saying ''the car'' and ''that car'' in English.
 ===Personal Pronouns===