In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....

In highly synthetic languages, copulas are often suffixes, attached to a noun, that may still behave otherwise like ordinary verbs, for example-u-in Inuit languages.

As a proper noun, Canon may also refer to:

" Ceramic " may be used as an adjective describing a material, product or process ; or as a singular noun, or, more commonly, as a plural noun, " ceramics ".

It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun ; however, it can also indicate various other relationships than possession: certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case, and it may have adverbial uses ( see Adverbial genitive ).

In some languages, particularly Slavic languages, a case may contain different groups of endings depending on whether the word is a noun or an adjective.

As a noun, it may specifically refer to:

The determinant may be a noun used uninflected as the first element in a compound word, with the base-word constituting the second element of the compound word.

Alternatively the determinant may be a noun in the genitive case, placed before or after the base-word, either directly or separated from the base-word by intervening words.

The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an adjective, to describe characteristics of an object or activity related to female same-sex desire.

Numerals enumerate, but in addition have distinct grammatical behavior: when a numeral modifies a noun, it may replace the article: the / some dogs played in the park → twelve dogs played in the park.

The fact that a noun belongs to a given class may imply the presence of:

The choice between the relative pronoun who ( persons ) and which ( non-persons ) may also be considered a way of categorizing nouns into noun classes.

In languages without inflectional noun classes, nouns may still be extensively categorized by independent particles called noun classifiers.

For example, one may say that " there's apple in this sauce ," and then apple has cumulative reference, and, hence, is used as a mass noun.

However, the term " collective noun " is often used to mean " mass noun " ( even in some dictionaries ), because users confound two different kinds of verb number invariability: ( a ) that seen with mass nouns such as " water " or " furniture ", with which only singular verb forms are used because the constituent matter is grammatically nondiscrete ( although it may or may not be etically nondiscrete ); and ( b ) that seen with collective nouns, which is the result of the metonymical shift between the group and its ( both grammatically and etically ) discrete constituents.

Some words belong to more than one word class ; for example run can serve as either a verb or a noun ( these are regarded as two different lexemes ).

The feminine forms of other words usually inflected by the gender of the noun they belong to, such as ei (“ a ( n )”), inga (“ no ”, “ none ”) and lita (“ small ”), are optional too ( masculine is used when feminine is not ).

The Sanskrit and old Hindi noun bhakti is derived from the verb root bhaj, whose meanings include " to share in ", " to belong to ", and " to worship ".

The table also contains information concerning which noun class of the Proto-Bantu language the words belong to.

In a declined language, the morphology of the article or noun changes in some way according to the grammatical role played by the noun in a given sentence.

The dative case ( abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument ) is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given, as in " George gave Jamie a drink ".

An example of a Latin noun declension is given below, using the singular forms of the word homo ( man ), which belongs to Latin's third declension.

That is, the grammatical gender of a given noun did not necessarily correspond to its natural gender, even for nouns referring to people.

Interestingly, the back-formed verb to quisle has since given rise to a much-less common, and malformed, version of the noun: quisler.

Words in one class can sometimes be derived from those in another ; this can give rise to new words, for example the noun aerobics has recently given rise to the adjective aerobicized.

A given noun can function in more than one class ; for example, wine can be either countable or uncountable ( this is a good wine, I prefer red wine ).

The word " vanya " in Quenya is also listed as a verb meaning " to leave / depart / vanish ", which may have either arisen due to the almost complete disappearance of this clan early on in Elven history, or given rise to the noun " Vanya ( r )" in later times.

The character of Wilkins Micawber has given rise to the English noun " Micawber " and the adjective " Micawberish ".

The word teriyaki derives from the noun, which refers to a shine or luster given by the sugar content in the tare, and, which refers to the cooking method of grilling or broiling.

Animacy is a grammatical and / or semantic category of nouns based on how sentient or alive the referent of the noun in a given taxonomic scheme is.

The order of these affixes is fixed, so we may view any given noun or verb as a stem followed by several inflectional slots, i. e. positions in which inflectional suffixes may occur.

* Apple Turnovers: The roles of red and green cards are reversed, with players using adjectives to describe the given noun.

: There appears to be an ultimate notion of assertion, given by the verb, which is lost as soon as we substitute a verbal noun, and is lost when the proposition in question is made the subject of some other proposition.

The American Heritage Dictionary traces the passage of the words bunk ( noun ), debunk ( verb ) and debunker ( noun ) into American English in 1923 as a belated outgrowth of " bunkum ", of which the first recorded use was in 1828, apparently related to a poorly received " speech for Buncombe " given by North Carolina representative Felix Walker during the 16th United States Congress ( 1819 – 1821 ).

Alternatively, the name " Funk Brothers " could have been given to the band ex post facto ; the term " funky " as an adjective came to be associated with uptempo and backbeat, southern-styled soul music in the second half of the 1960s ; the term " funk " as a noun is typically associated with uptempo soul music from the 1970s onwards.

For example, in one common pattern many verb and noun roots are given by logographs, while their grammatical affixes were written syllabically, much like modern Japanese.

Each Xiao Xiao cartoon is given a Chinese title with the adjective " Xiao Xiao " preceding a descriptive noun phrase.

In his work, Meinhof looked at noun classes with all Bantu languages having at least 10 classes and with 22 classes of nouns existing throughout the Bantu languages, though his definition of noun class differs slightly from the accepted one, considering the plural form of a word as belonging to a different class from the singular form ( thus leading, for example, to consider a language like French as having four classes instead of two ).

All Bantu languages have a noun class specifically for humans ( sometimes including other animate beings ).

A class usually represents a noun, such as a person, place or thing, or something nominalized.

* class membership, of the form " noun copula noun " cat is an animal

A common property of many Niger – Congo languages is the use of a noun class system.

In this period a relation between Bantu and languages with Bantu-like ( but less complete ) noun class systems began to emerge.

Nouns consist of a root originally preceded by a noun class prefix of ( C ) V-shape which is often eroded by phonological change.

In linguistics, the term noun class refers to a system of categorizing nouns.

Some authors use the term " grammatical gender " as a synonym of " noun class ", but others use different definitions for each ( see below ).

When noun class is expressed on other parts of speech, besides nouns and pronouns, the language is said to have grammatical gender.

The Ngangikurrunggurr language has noun classes reserved for canines, and hunting weapons, and the Anindilyakwa language has a noun class for things that reflect light.

Some members of the Northwest Caucasian family, and almost all of the Northeast Caucasian languages, manifest noun class.

The Andi language has a noun class reserved for insects.

Among Northwest Caucasian languages, only Abkhaz and Abaza have noun class, making use of a human male / human female / non-human distinction.

In all Caucasian languages that manifest class, it is not marked on the noun itself but on the dependent verbs, adjectives, pronouns and prepositions.