"Apple" is a countable noun, so it makes grammatical sense to have five apples.
Source: tatoeba (812034)
Countable
/ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
Synonyms for "countable" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Adjective(6 words)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (10)
Adjective(7 words)
Related words (16)
Adjective(11 words)
measurable attributemeasurable eventmeasurable quantitymeasurable traitsmensurablenumberablequantifiablequantifiable attributequantitativereckonablereckonable income
Noun(4 words)
Determiner(1 words)
more physical quantity
Related word relations
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
4 entriescountable itemcountable nouncountable setfinite set
Collocations
6 entriescountable datacountable itemscountable nouncountable quantitycountable resourcecountable set
Inflections
2 entriesmore countablemost countable
Derivations
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- изброим adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 可數 /可数 adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Czech
1 entries- spočetný adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Dutch
1 entries- aftelbaar adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Finnish
1 entries- numeroituva adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
French
1 entries- dénombrable adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Galician
1 entries- contábel adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
German
1 entries- abzählbar adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Hungarian
1 entries- megszámlálható adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Japanese
1 entries- 可算 adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Persian
1 entries- شمارشپذیر adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Polish
1 entries- przeliczalny adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Portuguese
1 entries- contável adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Slovene
1 entries- števen adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Spanish
1 entries- numerable adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Swedish
1 entries- uppräknelig adj (math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
"Happiness" is not a countable noun. It would make no sense to have 18 happinesses.
Source: tatoeba (812036)
The set of prime numbers is countable.
Source: tatoeba (812045)
The trouble with "trouble" is that it's sometimes a verb, sometimes a noun, sometimes countable, sometimes not. Oh, well. Trouble troubles me little, and little troubles trouble me not at all.
Source: tatoeba (866351)
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