Noun
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /naʊn/
- SAMPA: /naUn/
Noun /naun/
Noun
- A word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea; part of speech (Wikipedia article on parts of speech). It can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example a table or a computer.
Etymology
From Latin nomen, name
Synonyms
Translations
- Anglo-Saxon: nama m
- Arabic: اسم n
- Basque: izen
- Bulgarian: съществително име n
- Catalan: substantiu m
- Czech: podstatné jméno n
- Danish: navneord n
- Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord n
- Esperanto: substantivo
- Estonian: nimisõna
- Finnish: substantiivi
- French: nom m, substantif m
- Frisian: haadwurd n
- German: Nomen n, Substantiv n
- Greek, Ancient: ὄνομα (onoma) n
- Greek, Modern: ουσιαστικό (ousiastiko)
- Hebrew: שם עצם
- Hungarian:főnév
- Icelandic: nafnorð
- Italian: nome m, sostantivo m
- Indonesian: kata benda
- Interlingua: substantivo
- Japanese: 名詞 (めいし, meishi)
- Latin: nomen
- Mandarin:名词
- Norwegian: substantiv n
- Polish: rzeczownik m
- Portuguese: substantivo m
- Romanian: substantiv n
- Romanica: nomine m, substantivo m
- Russian: имя существительное n
- Slovak: podstatné meno n
- Spanish: sustantivo m (es), substantivo m, nombre m (Venezuelan; literally: name)
- Swedish: substantiv, nomen
- Turkish: isim
- Vietnamese: danh từ
Related terms
- abstract noun
- Collective noun
- common noun
- count noun, countable noun
- mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun
- noun phrase
- proper noun
- Nominal
Further Reading
- Wikipedia article on nouns
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