 Speakers of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, a modern Aramaic language that lacks a definite article, may at times use demonstratives "aha" and "aya" (feminine) or "awa" (masculine) – which translate to "this" and "that", respectively – to give the sense of "the".Indefinite articles typically arise from adjectives meaning "one".For example, the indefinite articles in the Romance languages—e.g., "un", "una", "une"—derive from the Latin adjective "unus".