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For the meanings and uses of the article, →30. The article is invariant for case, number or gender, and only changes to suit the phonetic environment. The forms are as follows:

comment
ibefore a consonant
jbefore an open vowel
ijbefore e
inbefore e, i
’nafter -e, -i, -ie

Examples:

  •  ⸱Indis i·Ciryamo — syllabic i between two consonants;
  •  ⸱auta i·lómë — syllabic i after a vowel and before a consonant;
  •  ⸱sac' i·fende — syllabic i after ë and before a consonant;
  •   ⸱ lírinen ómo j·aire táríva — asyllabic j between two open vowels;
  •   ⸱yassen tintilar ij·eleni — epenthetic j before e;
  •  ⸱coimas in Eldaron — epenthetic n before e;
  •   utúlie 'n·aure — epenthetic ‘n after ie.

The forms of the article are prepositive (→ @@). For the purpose of accentuation they count as proclitics (→2).