 All the articles in Eastern Lombard agree in number and gender with the corresponding noun.Articles can be definite (like "the" in English) and indefinite (like "a/an").Indefinite articles are used only with singular nouns, however to indicate an indefinite number of objects, Lombard exploits something similar to the partitive in French), but because the partitive system is much less developed in Lombard, this class of articles is included in the indefinite system.