There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.
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Attributive
/əˈtɹɪ.bju.tɪv/
Synonyms for "attributive" (56 found)
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Adjective(2 words)
Noun(3 words)
Determiner(1 words)
childrens song
Strong matches (16)
Related words (28)
levelmodifiernominalobjectpart of speechparticipialparticipleparticlepredicateprepositionprepositionalqualifierrankslotstructuralstructuresubjectsubstantivesyntacticsyntactics
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Noun(3 words)
Adjective(2 words)
qualifyingshort duration
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4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesattributive adjectiveattributive positionattributive syntaxdescriptive adjectiveprenominal adjectiveprenominal modifier
Inflections
2 entriesmore attributivemost attributive
Derivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
1 entriesattributive genitive
Translations
21 translations across 20 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təyini adj (of, or being an attributive)
Catalan
1 entries- atributiu adj (of, or being an attributive)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 定語的 /定语的 adj (of, or being an attributive)
Danish
1 entries- attributiv adj (of, or being an attributive)
Dutch
1 entries- attributief adj (of, or being an attributive)
Finnish
1 entries- attributiivinen adj (of, or being an attributive)
French
1 entries- épithète adj (of, or being an attributive)
Galician
1 entries- atributivo adj (of, or being an attributive)
German
1 entries- attributiv adj (of, or being an attributive)
Hungarian
1 entries- jelzői adj (of, or being an attributive)
Irish
1 entries- aitreabúideach adj (of, or being an attributive)
Japanese
1 entries- 限定的な adj (of, or being an attributive)
Kazakh
1 entries- анықтауыштық adj (of, or being an attributive)
Polish
2 entries- atrybutywny adj (of, or being an attributive)
- określający adj (of, or being an attributive)
Romanian
1 entries- atributiv adj (of, or being an attributive)
Russian
1 entries- определи́тельный adj (of, or being an attributive)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buaidh-aithriseach adj (of, or being an attributive)
Spanish
1 entries- atributivo adj (of, or being an attributive)
Swedish
1 entries- attributiv adj (of, or being an attributive)
Welsh
1 entries- disgrifiadol adj (of, or being an attributive)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
In Russian, attributive adjectives agree with nouns and pronouns in gender, number and case.
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In "this big house", big is attributive, whereas in "this house is big", it is predicative.
Source: wiktionary
In "this tiger is a man-eater," man is an attributive noun.
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