noun phrase

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noun phrase

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English

Noun

Examples

“Fred” in “Fred fell asleep at the keyboard.”
“The day Fred . . . keyboard” in “The day Fred fell asleep at the keyboard was very hot, and he had had too much to drink at lunchtime.”
“banana” (a noun)
“big bananas” (an adjective 'big', and a plural noun)
“a big banana” (an article 'a', an adjective and a singular noun)
“this big banana” (a determiner 'this', an adjective and a singular noun)
“a very big banana” (an article, an adverb 'very', defining an adjective, and a singular noun)
“a very big banana that tastes great” (an article, an adverb defining an adjective, and a singular noun; followed by a relative clause made up of a relative pronoun 'that', a verb 'tastes', and an adjective 'great')

noun phrase (plural noun phrases)

(grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
The term "restaurant supply service" is a noun phrase, as are "red blood cell" and "happy cat".

Many collocations are noun phrases.

Hypernyms

nonclause

Hyponyms

compound noun of open compound type

Coordinate terms

compound word

(types of phrases, by part of speech):

(parts of speech, of phrasal type):

Translations

phrase that can serve as the subject or the object of a verb

Basque: ^{(please verify)} izen-sintagma
Breton: rannfrazenn anv f, sintagm-anv m
Catalan: sintagma nominal m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 名詞短語／名词短语 (míngcí duǎnyǔ)
Dutch: nominale constituent m
Finnish: substantiivilauseke (fi), nominilauseke
French: groupe nominal (fr) m, syntagme nominal (fr) m
Galician: sintagma nominal (gl) m
German: Nominalphrase (de) f
Greek: ονοματική φράση (el) f (onomatikí frási)
Hungarian: főnévi csoport, főnévi kifejezés, főnévi szerkezet
Icelandic: nafnliður m
Interlingua: phrase substantival
Italian: locuzione nominale (it) f
Japanese: 名詞句 (めいしく, meishiku)
Khmer: កន្សោមនាម (kɑnsaom niem)
Korean: 명사구 (ko) (myeongsagu)
Malay: ^{(please verify)} frasa nama
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: substantivfrase (no) m

Norwegian Nynorsk: substantivfrase f
Persian: گروه اسمی (fa)
Polish: fraza rzeczownikowa f
Portuguese: locução substantiva (pt) f, locução nominal f
Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਨਾਂਵ ਵਾਕੰਸ਼ (nā̃v vākãś)
Romanian: locuțiune substantivală f
Russian: именно́е словосочета́ние n (imennóje slovosočetánije), субстанти́вное словосочета́ние n (substantívnoje slovosočetánije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏меничка̄ фра́за f

Roman: ȉmeničkā fráza f
Spanish: sintagma nominal m, grupo nominal m
Swedish: nominalfras (sv) c
Turkish: ad öbeği
Vietnamese: cụm danh từ (vi)
Welsh: ymadrodd enwol m

Further reading

noun phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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