Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia - Noun
In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Classification Of Nouns
Noun - Proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns (also called proper names) are the names of unique entities. For example, "Janet", "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noun: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Noun
Noun.   See NUT   (See also: Noun , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Count Noun: Encyclopedia - Count Noun
In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun which can be modified by a numeral and occur in both singular and plural for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Noun: Encyclopedia - Collective Noun
Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery, veneral nouns or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Grammar - Noun
Arabic grammar - State. The Arabic noun can take one of three states of definiteness: definite, indefinite or construct state. The defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bright Noun: Encyclopedia - Bright Noun
The term bright, used as a noun, is a neologism invented by Paul Geisert in 2003 as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Collective Nouns For Birds: Encyclopedia - List Of Collective Nouns For Birds
See also Collective noun. List of collective nouns for birds - External link. An exhaustive (though possibly partly fictitious) list of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baton: Encyclopedia - Baton
Baton refers to: The term baton refers to any of several types of cylindrical or tapered instruments composed of a wide variety of materi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verb Phrase: Encyclopedia - Verb Phrase
A verb phrase (VP) is a phrase whose head is a verb. A verb phrase consists of a verb, often one or two complements, and any number of ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia - Adjective
An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. However, adjectives ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compound Linguistics: Encyclopedia - Compound Linguistics
A compound is a word (lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. A certain type of compound (endocentric) consists of a head, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Collective Noun - Collective Nouns
Several collective nouns perform double, triple or even more duties. "Herd" is a legitimate collective noun for dozens of animals and (ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Collective Noun - Origins
Many nouns used are colourful, or even fanciful; this originated in an English hunting tradition (of uncertain origin) for giving poetic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Nouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Nouns - Gender
All Spanish nouns have one of two grammatical genders: masculine or feminine (mostly conventional, that is, arbitrarily assigned). Most a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Nouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Nouns - Number
There are two grammatical numbers: singular and plural. The singular form is the one found in dictionaries (base form). The plural is ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - French Grammar - Nouns
Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of an animate noun usually corresponds t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Danish Grammar - Nouns
There are two genders of nouns in Danish: Common and Neuter. The common nouns use the en article and the neuter ones use et. dreng = boy;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Grammar - Nouns
Main article: Spanish nouns Spanish has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of objects, qualities, feelings and other...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Nouns
The Hebrew word for "noun" is שם עצם shem etsem. Hebrew nouns are inflected by gender, number (and sometimes by possession) but not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georgian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Georgian Grammar - Nouns
The declension of a noun depends on whether the root of the noun ends with a vowel or a consonant. If the root of the noun ends with a vo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Welsh Morphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Welsh Morphology - Nouns
Like most other Indo-European languages, all nouns belong to a certain grammatical gender; in this case, masculine or feminine. Aside fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Grammar - Nouns
Latin grammar - Cases. On the noun tables there are usually 5 (sometimes 7) cases: Nominative: indicates the subject of the sentence, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Official: Encyclopedia Ii - Official - Official As A Noun
Official - Ecclesiastical judiciary. In Canon law, the word is used absolutely, as the legal title of a type of diocesan judge within t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanian Grammar - Nouns
Romanian grammar - Gender. Romanian nouns are categorized into three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, feature preserved from L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language Noun Cases: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language Noun Cases - Grammatical Cases
The grammatical cases perform all the important grammatical functions. Nominative The basic form of the noun Characteristic ending: none...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Grammar - Nouns
In Dutch, nouns generally describe persons, places, things, and abstract ideas, and are treated as grammatically distinct from verbs. Nou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - English Grammar - Nouns
In English, nouns generally describe persons, places, things, and abstract ideas, and are treated as grammatically distinct from verbs. E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nominals: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nominals - Nouns
Irish nominals - Gender. Nouns in Irish are divided into two genders, masculine and feminine. While gender should be learned when the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slovak Declension: Encyclopedia Ii - Slovak Declension - Nouns
For each gender, there are four basic declension paradigms (i. e. declension models). Note that many nouns (especially those following th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Nouns
A German noun has one of three specific grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and belongs to one of three declensions. These ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language Noun Cases: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language Noun Cases - Locative Cases
The most important function of the locative cases is to indicate location. They are often divided into two groups: the internal locatives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interlingua Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Interlingua Grammar - Nouns
Nouns inflect for number only. Plural nouns take -s after a vowel, -es after a consonant (but -hes after a final -c to preserve the [k] s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlantic Languages - Noun Classes
Atlantic languages have noun class systems similar to those found in other Niger-Congo languages, most famously the Bantu languages. Bant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek - Nouns
Ancient Greek nouns have three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and five cases (nomi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Morphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Morphology - Nouns
Old English nouns were declined – that is, the ending of the noun changed to reflect its function in the sentence. There were five majo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Incorporation Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Incorporation Linguistics - Semantics Of Noun Incorporation
In many cases, a phrase with an incorporated noun carries a different meaning with respect to the equivalent phrase where the noun is not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Grammar - Nouns And Adjectives
All Portuguese nouns have one of two genders: masculine or inclusive and feminine or exclusive. Most adjectives and pronouns, and all art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Defective Nouns
Some nouns have no singular form. Such a noun is called a plurale tantum: annals, billiards*, measles, nuptials, thanks, tidings, victua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Compound: Encyclopedia Ii - English Compound - Compound Nouns
Most English compound nouns are noun phrases (= nominal phrases) that include a noun modified by adjectives or attributive nouns. Due to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Types Of Noun Classes
Most Indo-European languages distinguish feminine, masculine and sometimes neuter noun classes. But this system of classification is not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swahili Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Swahili Language - Noun Classes
In common with all Bantu languages, Swahili grammar arranges nouns into a number of classes. The ancestral system had 22 classes, countin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Manifestations Of Noun Classes
Grammatical gender - Agreement. The most common way in which noun classes are manifested in a language is through gender agreement. To ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Manifestations Of Noun Classes
Grammatical gender - Agreement. The most common way in which noun classes are manifested in a language is through gender agreement. To ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Verbs: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Verbs - Verbal Nouns
Irish verbs - Formation of the verbal noun. Irish has no infinitive and uses instead the verbal noun. The verbal noun can be formed usi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Declension: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Declension - Noun Declensions
There are five declensions of nouns in Latin. Latin declension - First declension a. Nouns of this declension usually end in –a and a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Grammar - Noun Forms
The Finnish language does not distinguish gender in nouns or even in personal pronouns: 'hän' = 'he' or 'she' depending on the referent....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Noun Classes In Specific Languages
Grammatical gender - More than three grammatical genders/noun classes. Swahili Zulu Dyirbal Bats all Bantu languages some Slavic langu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Noun Classes In Specific Linguistic Families
Grammatical gender - Algonquian languages. The Ojibwe language and other members of the Algonquian languages distinguish between anima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Noun Classes In Specific Languages
Grammatical gender - List of languages without grammatical genders/noun classes. This is an incomplete list, which may never be able ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Nouns With Multiple Plurals
Some nouns have two plurals, one used to refer to a number of things considered individually, the other to refer to a number of things co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verb: Encyclopedia Ii - Verb - Verbal Noun And Verbal Adjective
Most languages have a number of verbal nouns that describe the action of the verb. In Indo-European languages, there are several kinds of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Headless Nouns
Linguist Steven Pinker, in his book, The Language Instinct discusses what he calls "headless words", typically bahuvrihis, like lowlife a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Nouns And Other Deictics
Japanese nouns are non-inflecting and have neither gender nor number; in addition, Japanese lacks articles. Thus, 猫 (neko) can be trans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Syntax: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Syntax - Syntax Of The Verbal Noun
A progressive aspect can be formed by connecting the verbal noun to the existential verb with the progressive particle ag. The object of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia Ii - Adjective - Nominal Use Of Adjectives And Adjectival Use Of Nouns
Adjective - Nominal use of adjectives. Adjectives are sometimes used in place of nouns, as in many of the Beatitudes (e.g. "Blessed are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Nominal Or Noun Phrases
(The content of this section is not yet applicable for proper names.) A German nominal phrase, in general, consists of the following comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Nahuatl Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Classical Nahuatl Grammar - Basic Nouns
There are five basic nouns endings in Nahuatl. In Nahuatl, nouns take a suffix called the "absolutive". This suffix takes the form -tl af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - X-bar Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - X-bar Theory - A Simple Noun Phrase
The noun phrase "the cat" might be rendered like this: NP / \ DetP N' | | Det' N | | Det cat | the The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor - The Noun Doctor In The Medical Profession
In American and Canadian parlance, "doctor" is most often used for all types of physicians and surgeons, including internists, pediatrici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Grammar - Nouns I Nomi
Nouns in Italian have gender (masculine or feminine, but no neuter), and number (singular or plural). The gender and number is always sho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Mythology - Spelling Of Proper Nouns
A lot of deities appear on the stage of Japanese mythology, and many of them have multiple aliases. Furthermore, some of their names are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Title - The Noun Doctor In The Medical Profession
In American and Canadian parlance, "doctor" is most often used for all types of physicians and surgeons, including internists, pediatrici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Particles: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Particles - Noun- And Verb-derived Postpositional Idioms
Japanese particles - Noun-derived postpositional idioms. Jō is a postpositional idiom which means "from the standpoint of". It only f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Common Indo-european Roots: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Common Indo-european Roots - Nouns
List of common Indo-European roots - Kinship. manu- (person): S manus-, I man-us, E mann/man, R muž, B žmonės/, N mânša nō-m.n (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia Ii - Adjective - Adjectives Of Relation
"Adjectives of relation" are adjectives formed from a noun, with the general meaning "of, relating to or like (the noun)" (the precise ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Morphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Morphology - Adjectives
Adjectives in Old English are declined using the same categories as nouns: five cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and inst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compound Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Compound Linguistics - Compound Types In Different Languages
Compound linguistics - Compound nouns. Most natural languages have compound nouns and sometimes compound adjectives. The position of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia Ii - Adjective - Attributive And Predicative
In a sentence, an adjective is used in either an attributive or a predicative manner. Words which are classed as adjectives are typically...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Connacht Irish: Encyclopedia Ii - Connacht Irish - Morphology
Connacht Irish - Nouns. In some dialects of Connacht the plural endings -anna and -acha are always replaced by -annaí and -achaí. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia Ii - Adjective - Attributive And Predicative
In a sentence, an adjective is used in either an attributive or a predicative manner. Words which are classed as adjectives are typically...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlantic Languages - Consonant Mutation
Many Atlantic languages exhibit consonant mutation, a phenomenon in which the intitial consonant of a word change depending on its morpho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compound Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Compound Linguistics - Formation Of Compounds
Compound formation rules vary widely across language types. In a perfectly analytic language, compounds are simply elements strung togeth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amharic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Amharic Language - Grammar
Amharic language - Pronouns. Amharic language - Nouns. Amharic nouns can be primary or derived. A noun like əgər 'foot, leg' is pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - J Programming Language Rank: Encyclopedia Ii - J Programming Language Rank - Verb Rank
Verbs, in J, are functions which take noun arguments and produce noun results. The rank of a verb controls how the verb is applied to nou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Regular Plurals
The plural morpheme in English is suffixed to the end of most nouns. The plural form is usually represented orthographically by adding -s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Almost-regular Plurals
Many nouns of Italian or Spanish origin are exceptions to the -oes rule: Many nouns ending in a voiceless fricative mutate that sound to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - French Grammar - Articles And Determiners
Main article: French articles and determiners Articles and determiners agree in gender and number with the noun they determine; and, unli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Morphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Morphology - Verbs
Verbs in Old English are divided into strong or weak verbs. For a fuller discussion of these, see Germanic weak verb and West Germanic st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yaqui Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Yaqui Language - Grammar
Yaqui language - Syntax. Yaqui word order is generally Subject Object Verb. The object of a sentence is suffixed with "-t", or, if the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quenya: Encyclopedia Ii - Quenya - Grammar
Quenya - Nouns. Nouns are declined for ten cases: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, possessive, locative, all...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Irregular Plurals
There are many other less regular ways of forming plurals. While they may seem quirky, they usually stem from older forms of English or f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Measure Word: Encyclopedia Ii - Measure Word - Asian Languages
Languages such as Ainu, Bangla (Bengali), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai use measure words as the standard way of indicating the cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Numbers
English, like some other languages, treats large numerals like nouns, such as in "ten soldiers" and "a hundred soldiers." This is why doz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Names Of Peoples
There are several different rules for this. In discussing peoples whose demonym takes -man or -woman, there are three options: pluralize ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Adjectives
The Hebrew adjective שם תואר shem toar comes after the noun and agrees with it in gender and number: ספר קטן sefer katan (sm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia Ii - Adjective - Adjective Order
In many languages, adjectives usually occur in an unmarked order. However, some languages do not have this tendency. English is a languag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Attic Greek - Grammar
Attic Greek - Nouns. Attic Greek nouns have three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - French Grammar - Adjectives
An adjective agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies. To make an adjective feminine, most simply add -e; to make most adjec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Number - Inverse Number
The languages of the Kiowa-Tanoan family have three numbers — singular, dual, and plural — and exhibit an unusual system, called inve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laal Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Laal Language - Grammar
Laal language - Syntax. The typical word order can be summarized as subject - (verbal particle) - verb - object - adverb; preposition -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Language - Grammar
Armenian resembles other Indo-European languages in its structure, but it shares distinctive sounds and features of its grammar with neig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Armenian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Armenian Language - Morphology
Armenian language - Noun. Classical Armenian has no grammatical gender, not even in the pronoun. The nominal inflection, however, prese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nominals: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nominals - Article
The definite article has two forms in Irish: an and na. Their distribution depends on whether the noun is singular or plural, the case of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Symbols And Abbreviations
Symbols and abbreviations whose plural would be ambiguous if only an s were added are pluralized by adding 's. "mind your p's and q's" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Nubian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Nubian Language - Grammar
Old Nubian language - Noun. Old Nubian has no gender, nor any articles. The noun consists of a stem to which grammatical case suffixes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Case Number And Gender
In sentences, noun phrases may function in a variety of different ways, the most obvious being as subjects (performers of action) or obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Case, Number, And Gender
In sentences, noun phrases may function in a variety of different ways, the most obvious being as subjects (performers of action) or obje...   » Read the article