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nominalized

nominalized is the simple past and past participle of nominalize.

Meaning of nominalize

Verb

nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
    • To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To make nominalistic.

Phrases with nominalized

Questions about nominalized

What is nominalized the simple past and past participle of?
Nominalized is the simple past and past participle of nominalize.

Words near nominalized in the dictionary

  1. nominality
  2. nominalizable
  3. nominalization
  4. nominalizations
  5. nominalize
  6. nominalized
  7. nominalized adjective
  8. nominalized adjectives
  9. nominalizer
  10. nominalizers
  11. nominalizes

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