count-noun

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Definition von count-noun im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Attributive form of count noun, noun

I don't know... to me, love just has a count-noun ring to it.

a noun which is used to refer to things that can be counted. Examples: woman, stone, tree, dollar

A noun of a type that can be counted Thus horse is a count noun, but water is not Contrast mass noun

a noun that forms plurals

A noun that can be counted or divided easily is a count noun For example, the nouns "friend" and "school" are count nouns

Nouns that have both singular and plural forms because they can be counted: one ball, two balls

A count noun is a noun such as `bird', `chair', or `year' which has a singular and a plural form and is always used after a determiner in the singular. = countable noun. A noun for an object, such as chair, or for an idea, such as experience, that speakers of a language identify as referring to a single entity and that can form a plural or occur in a noun phrase construction with an indefinite article, with numerals, or with such terms as many. a noun that has both a singular and plural form and can be used with 'a' or 'an' noun