Word Finder - nouns

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(grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

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(grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

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To convert a word to a noun.

Adjectives follow the nouns they qualify.

On March 31st I found that Helen knew eighteen nouns and three verbs.

Many words are used indiscriminately as nouns, adjectives or verbs, without any change of form.

She makes many mistakes, of course, twists words and phrases, puts the cart before the horse, and gets herself into hopeless tangles of nouns and verbs; but so does the hearing child.

Many words are used indiscriminately, as nouns, adjectives or verbs, without change; but sometimes a noun is indicated by its termination.

From these are derived the suffixes, which are shortened forms attached to nouns to express the possessor, and to verbs to express the subject.

Instead of the personal pronouns, both in their full and abbreviated forms, conventional nouns are in frequent use to indicate the social position or relation of the respective interlocutors, as, e.g.

The derivation of Yahweh from hawah is formally unimpeachable, and is adopted by many recent scholars, who proceed, however, from the primary sense of the root rather than from the specific meaning of the nouns.

Extra words in a sentence that provide details are said to modify nouns.

Mauvais can be used as is (adding an "e" on the end for feminine nouns and an "s" on the end for plurals).

Another chief characteristic of Aramaic appears in nouns, viz.

A few words may now be said about the three main parts of speech - pronouns, nouns and verbs.

These nouns vary according to the different localities.

Another marked peculiarity is that active agency is never attribtited to neuter nouns.

Though, for simplicity and universality of thought, even in science, we must use the abstraction of attributes, and, by the necessity and weakness of language, must signify what are not substances by nouns substantive, we must guard against the over-abstraction of believing that a thing exists as we abstract it.

Masculine and feminine nouns of instrument or material are formed from verbal roots by prefixing m; e.g.

The large class of heterogeneous nouns which are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural constitute what is sometimes called the neuter declension.

In most of the languages there are no changes in nouns to form the plural, but an added numeral indicates number.

Case is shown by particles, which precede the nouns.

Catalan, then, makes no distinctions save in the gender and the number of its nouns.

Choose five abstract nouns relating to recent conversational themes.

Capitalizing proper nouns to search for specific people, places, or products will bring higher yields.

Nouns tend to be qualified with extra adjectives given.

Pronouns are a set of short words which stand for or replace nouns or noun phrases.

My webpage does not cover the topic of possessive plural nouns.

Try not to misuse nouns as verbs or adjectives.

Prepositional phrases can modify nouns, e.g. the man in the moon.

The search engine will examine the query, extract nouns and noun phrases and construct a query for the user.

They're not much different than his names and titles, but they're more descriptive adjectives or nouns that define him to us.

As in some other languages, Latin nouns can be masculine, feminine and neuter, and they also belong to groups called declensions.

Polish Nouns helps Macintosh users to learn and practice declension of nouns.

This often happens with nouns of the third declension.

These dictionaries include complete verb conjugation and grammar (agreements in gender and number of nouns and adjectives, german declensions ).

Some common nouns as part of names do not inflect, and thus are never case-marked.

The regular plural inflection, and the genitive possessive inflection of nouns follow exactly the same pattern.

Session B 9.00 David Nicolas (UCLA) do mass nouns constitute a semantically uniform class?

Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.

He also claims that proforms, in contrast to pronouns and definite nouns, require semantic - as opposed to pragmatic - identification.

Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.

There is a dual, as well as a plural form in the declension of verbs, nouns, pronouns and adjectives.

But the most important peculiarity of Syriac verbs is again in the sphere of syntax, and shows the same progress towards flexibility which we found in the nouns.

These belong to a group of four auxiliary particles called te ni wo ha (or we), which serve to mark the cases of nouns, te (or de) being the sign of the instrumental ablative; ni that of the dative; wo that of the objective, and wa that of the nominative.

The fundamental principles of his system (see Scholasticism) are that "Essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" ("Occam's Razor"), that nouns, like algebraical symbols, are merely denotative terms whose meaning is conventionally agreed upon (suppositio), and that the destructive effect of these principles in theological matters does not in any way destroy faith (see the Centilogium Theologicum, Lyons, 1495, and Tractatus de Sacramento Altaris).

Helen has learned several nouns this week.

Helen is learning adjectives and adverbs as easily as she learned nouns.

She knows four hundred words besides numerous proper nouns.

Story Builder offers nouns, verbs and adjectives that children plug into stories.

Learning a foreign language's grammar can help you construct sentences and easily formulate proper nouns and verbs, so you can communicate with other German speakers.

Usually children first learn general nouns, such as "flower" instead of "dandelion," and they may overgeneralize words, such as calling all toys "balls."

These key words are nouns and noun phrases for the most part, though they can also be descriptive words.