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qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical

The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages. In English, prototypical nouns are common nouns or proper nouns that can occur with determiners

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent

three main categories of English nouns are common nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. A defining feature of English nouns is their ability to inflect for

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Usage of collective nouns Notes Further reading External links The terms in this table apply to many

classifier–noun pairings arise: some regard them as being based on innate semantic features of the noun (for example, all nouns denoting "long" objects

Uncountable nouns are distinguished from count nouns. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are

nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns.

plural, all nouns are divided into three groups: masculine nouns denoting persons (personal masculine), other masculine nouns and feminine nouns (non-personal

have one classifier for nouns representing persons, another for nouns representing flat objects, another for nouns denoting periods of time, and so on