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noun [naʊn] N LING

collective noun N LING

common noun N LING

proper noun N, proper name LING

Usage examples with nouns

Adjectives are used to qualify nouns.
形容词用来修饰名词。

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Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.
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The demonstrative then used is dependent on the number and class of nouns.
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There is a hierarchy of alliteration; nouns and verbs are almost consistently alliterated, whereas helping words such as pronouns and prepositions are almost never alliterated.
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There are a number of collective nouns for a group of priests.
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The standard language only distinguishes masculine and feminine genders by the use of the personal pronoun, which is "hij" for masculine nouns and "zij" for feminine nouns.
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While these honorifics are solely used on proper nouns, these suffixes can turn common nouns into proper nouns when attached to the end of them.
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This is used either with mass nouns or with plural nouns both cases where the indefinite article can not occur.
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Nouns are modified either by nouns, by classifiers, or by other suffixes.
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The two terms were now compound nouns often shown hyphenated.
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Nouns are marked for ten cases, in general with suffixes, and are additionally inflected for number.
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