By Genders, Definite articles

Milky wrote:Depending on the context it could be part of a description, however imprecise, of women in general - generic qualities of the gender called "woman". Or, it could be describing a man who has such characteristics. Not sure if it would be used to desribe anything else.Good! So if a...

to work those things means to produce/engender/bring forth those things, make those things come to life in us to work on those things means to (try) to influence those (pre-existing) things in us, make them change Thus what you mean to say is very important.

Yes, your question is really interesting. I'm Brazilian and consequently a Portuguese speaker. In my native language, like in Italian, French, Spanish and German (some languages that I've been studying, other than English), people use the definite and indefinite articles, pronouns, etc. ...

It's always hard for us to learn the things that don't exist in our own language. It's like the trouble we English speakers have with gender in the other European languages. Unfortunately, I don't know a better way to explain the indefinite article. Actually the reason I'm here on this forum...