determiner
Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004
Noun
determiner (plural determiners)
- (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
- (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
- Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
- 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
- The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,
- 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
- (word class) determinative
- (grammatical function) determinative
- French: déterminant
- German: related terms: Artikelwort, Determinans, Determinativ, Determinierer
- Italian: determinante
- Portuguese: determinante
- Russian: определя́ющее сло́во
- Spanish: determinante
- Italian: determinante
- Italian: determinante
- Portuguese: determinador
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.004