Translations for „collective noun“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

collective noun N

collective noun

собира́тельное существи́тельное nt

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English

Other examples of notional agreement for collective nouns involve some uses of the words "team" and "none".

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There are 19 collective nouns for economists.

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Collective nouns actually are a great delight to read, especially the ones that are politically incorrect, frank, and perhaps, whimsically accurate in some sense.

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That sounded a bit odd, so we started to play around with collective nouns.

jamaica-gleaner.com

Collective nouns are interesting studies, such as the pride of lions and gaggle of geese.

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I understood something about the function of language, why being able to diagram sentences was important, why understanding partitives and collective nouns was important.

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It has yet to be decided on what the collective noun should be for a group of stadium announcers.

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Obsolete collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include unkindness and conspiracy.

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Many species have multiple collective nouns associated with them.

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The local paper found that the collective noun for the clan should be a plague!

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