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adjectival nouns

adjectival nouns is the plural of adjectival noun.

Meaning of adjectival noun

Noun

adjectival noun (plural adjectival nouns)

  1. A noun used as an adjective.
    • Near-synonyms: attributive noun, noun adjunct (broadly synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    attributive noun, noun adjunct[Appendix:Glossary
  2. A specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi).
  3. Nouns that have the form of adjectives (often originally adjectives used as nouns).
    • Adjectival nouns are simply identical in form to adjectives of a particular gender and decline accordingly.2005, James D. Naughton, Czech: An Essential Grammar, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 45
  4. (sometimes) A nominalized adjective.

Questions about adjectival nouns

What is adjectival nouns the plural of?
Adjectival nouns is the plural of adjectival noun.

Words near adjectival nouns in the dictionary

  1. adjectitiously
  2. adjectival
  3. adjectival clause
  4. adjectival clauses
  5. adjectival noun
  6. adjectival nouns
  7. adjectival phrase
  8. adjectival phrases
  9. adjectival pronoun
  10. adjectival pronouns
  11. adjectivality

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