| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
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| category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb |
accusative
,
accusative case
,
objective case
|
| part of speech used to add information to nouns |
adjective
|
| word class that qualifies nouns |
adjective
|
| indicator used before nouns beginning with a vowel |
an
|
| morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns |
bound form
,
bound morpheme
|
| nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence |
case
,
grammatical case
|
| gender of nouns that apply to either sex |
common gender
|
| category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb |
dative
,
dative case
|
| inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages |
declension
|
| class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms |
declension
|
| grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness |
gender
,
grammatical gender
|
| use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier |
hendiadys
|
| category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
nominative
,
nominative case
,
subject case
|
| grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) |
number
|
| agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
number agreement
|
| list of proper nouns naming persons or places |
onomasticon
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