In this way " myriad " can be used as either an adjective or a noun.

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun – " the car " – remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.

Standard Danish has two genders and the definite form of nouns is formed by the use of suffixes, while Western Jutlandic has only one gender and the definite form of nouns uses an article before the noun itself, in the same fashion as West Germanic languages.

The nominalist approach is to argue that certain noun phrases can be " eliminated " by rewriting a sentence in a form that has the same meaning, but does not contain the noun phrase.

Sahaptin has an ergative noun case ( with suffix-nɨm ) that is limited to transitive constructions only when the direct object is 1st or 2nd person: iwapáatayaaš łmámanɨm ‘ the old woman helped me ’; paanáy iwapáataya łmáma ‘ the old woman helped him / her ’ ( direct ); páwapaataya łmámayin ‘ the old woman helped him / her ’ ( inverse ).

The corresponding noun diligentia, however, has the meaning of " diligence " or " carefulness ," and has little semantic overlap with the verb.

In English, the noun " mammoth " also has become an adjective meaning " large " or " massive ".

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.

Yanyuwa, which has 16 noun classes, including nouns associated with food, trees and abstractions, in addition to separate classes for men and masculine things, women and feminine things.

The Andi language has a noun class reserved for insects.

The Fula language has about 26 noun classes ( exact number varies slightly by dialect ).

According to Steven Pinker, the Kivunjo language has 16 noun classes including classes for precise locations and for general locales, classes for clusters or pairs of objects and classes for the objects that come in pairs or clusters, and classes for abstract qualities.

If one follows broader linguistic tradition and counts singular and plural as belonging to the same class, then Swahili has 8 or 9 noun classes, Sotho has 11 and Ganda has 10.

*** Intensive pronouns, also known as emphatic pronouns, re-emphasize a noun or pronoun that has already been mentioned.

The noun has survived, and is still in current use, appearing during 2008 and 2009 in articles in The New York Times, Die Zeit and The Times.

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

The term radar has since entered English and other languages as the common noun radar, losing all capitalization.

The English word " prophecy " ( noun ) in the sense of " function of a prophet " appeared in Europe from about 1225, from Old French profecie ( 12th century ), and from Late Latin prophetia, Greek prophetia " gift of interpreting the will of the gods ", from Greek prophetes ( see prophet ).

While the noun " mattock " is attested from Old English onwards, the transitive verb " to mattock " or " to mattock up " first appeared in the mid-17th century.

" The noun appeared for the first time in the fourth century as the title of a circumciser ( Shabbat 156a ).

The Lexicon of the Indo-European verbs edited by Rix appeared in 1997 as a first step towards a modernization of Pokorny's dictionary ; a corresponding tome addressing the noun is in preparation.

Unlike earlier works of interactive fiction which only understood commands of the form ' verb noun ', Infocom's parser could understand a wider variety of sentences.

Especially as titles of works, but also as nicknames and the like, some proper names contain no noun and are not formed as noun phrases ( the film Being There ; Hi De Ho as a nickname for Cab Calloway and as the title of a film about him ).

Avant-garde (); from French, " advance guard " or " vanguard ") is a French term used in English as a noun or adjective to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Otherwise, Dagr appears as a common noun simply meaning " day " throughout Old Norse works.

Essentially, the tree model works something like this example, in which S is a sentence, D is a determiner, N a noun, V a verb, NP a noun phrase and VP a verb phrase:

However, in other situations, usually if the noun modified by the genitive attribute is indefinite, the genitival article is required, as for example in câteva opere < u > ale </ u > scriitorului ( some of the writer's works ).

As set out in The Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer, when the compound is made up of a noun and a preposition, a noun and a prepositional phrase, or a noun and an adjective, the noun is usually pluralized such as is in " mothers-in-law ", " commanders in chief " and " works of art ".

It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined ( such as in Latin ) with the nominative case, making it an indirect object.

The deficit of such a bridge was first encountered in history by the Pre-Socratic philosophers during the process of evolving a classification of all beings ( noun ).

In some other languages, such as Beja and Ket, the copula takes the form of suffixes that attach to a noun but are distinct from the person agreement markers used on predicative verbs.

Rújiào and Kǒngjiào contain the Chinese character jiào, the noun " teach ", used in such as terms as " education ", or " educator ".

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

In some languages, there is double-marking of a word as both genitive ( to indicate semantic role ) and another case such as accusative ( to establish concord with the head noun ).

Roger Blench notes that the Talodi and Heiban families have the noun-class systems characteristic of the Atlantic – Congo core of Niger – Congo, but that the two Katla languages have no trace of ever having had such a system, whereas the Kadu languages and some of the Rashad languages appear to have acquired noun classes as part of a Sprachbund rather than having inherited them.

He also often uses linguistic terms for Perl language constructs, so instead of traditional terms such as " variable ", " function ", and " accessor " he sometimes says " noun ", " verb ", and " topicalizer ".

Human languages also differ from animal communication systems in that they employ grammatical and semantic categories such as noun and verb, or present and past, to express exceedingly complex meanings.

Ai is used as both a verb ( e. g. wo ai ni 我愛你, or " I love you ") and a noun ( such as aiqing 愛情, or " romantic love ").

By extension, the term " manichean " is widely applied ( often disparagingly ) as an adjective to a philosophy or attitude of moral dualism, according to which a moral course of action involves a clear ( or simplistic ) choice between good and evil, or as a noun to people who hold such a view.

There are also number words which enumerate but are not a distinct part of speech, such as ' dozen ', which is a noun, ' first ', which is an adjective, or ' twice ', which is an adverb.

A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its referent, such as sex, animacy, shape, but counting a given noun among nouns of such or another class is often clearly conventional.

A few nouns also exhibit vestigial noun classes, such as stewardess, where the suffix-ess added to steward denotes a female person.

Onomatopoeia ( as an uncountable noun ) refers to the property of such words.

They are not strictly speaking pronouns because they do not substitute for a noun or noun phrase, and as such, some grammarians classify these terms in a separate lexical category called determiners ( they have a syntactic role close to that of adjectives, always qualifying a noun ).

For example, rather than asserting that sentences are constructed by a rule that combines a noun phrase ( NP ) and a verb phrase ( VP ) ( e. g. the phrase structure rule S → NP VP ), in categorial grammar, such principles are embedded in the category of the head word itself.

Most subject – verb – object languages place genitives after the noun, though there is a significant minority, including the postpositional SVO languages of West Africa, the Hmong – Mien languages, some Sino-Tibetan languages, and such European languages as Swedish, Danish, Lithuanian and Latvian, that have prenominal genitives ( as would be expected in a SOV language ).

The term as a noun can refer to the meat, the cooking apparatus itself ( the " barbecue grill " or simply " barbecue ") or to the party that includes such food or such preparation methods.