English
[edit]Noun
[edit]substantivation (countable and uncountable, plural substantivations)
- The process or result of making something substantive.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From substantiver + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]substantivation f (plural substantivations)
- substantivization, nominalization
- La substantivation, très vivante en ancien français, ne se produit plus guère aujourd’hui que dans le discours philosophique.
- Nominalization, very active in Old French, hardly ever occurs today except in philosophical discourse.
Further reading
[edit]- “substantivation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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