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nominalizes

nominalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about nominalizes

What is nominalizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nominalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nominalize.

Words near nominalizes in the dictionary

  1. nominalized
  2. nominalized adjective
  3. nominalized adjectives
  4. nominalizer
  5. nominalizers
  6. nominalizes
  7. nominalizing
  8. nominally
  9. nominalness
  10. nominals
  11. nominant

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