artikel

Artikel is a term used in German, Dutch, Indonesian and other languages, generally meaning "article." It can refer to a written piece published in a periodical or online, such as a news article, feature, or scholarly article, as well as to the grammatical class of determiners known in English as articles.

In journalism and academia, articles vary in purpose and scope. News articles report current events; feature articles explore topics in depth; scholarly articles present research and are often peer-reviewed with sections such as abstract, methods, results, and discussion. Online versions commonly include metadata, hyperlinks, and digital identifiers like DOIs or URLs.

In linguistics, articles (Artikel in German and Dutch) are determiners that mark definiteness and, in some languages, gender, number, or case. German distinguishes definite articles (der, die, das) and indefinite articles (ein, eine). Other languages have one or more definite or indefinite articles, or none at all. The term "artikel" thus encompasses both a textual genre and a grammatical category, depending on context.

Across languages and media, the meaning and usage of artikel reflect both communicative function and syntactic structure.