Nominalization

Synonyms for "nominalization" (5 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
nounification

Strong matches (2)

Noun(1 words)
substantivation

Related words (2)

Noun(1 words)
substantivisation

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derived

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has context

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related to

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Translations

39 translations across 25 languages.

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Albanian

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  • emërzim noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • isimləşmə noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Catalan

2 entries
  • nominalització noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantivació noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 名詞化 /名词化 noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Czech

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  • substantivizace noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Danish

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  • substantivering noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Dutch

2 entries
  • nominalisatie noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantivering noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Esperanto

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  • substantivigo noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

French

2 entries
  • nominalisation noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantivation noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Galician

2 entries
  • nominalización noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantivación noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

German

3 entries
  • Hauptwortbildung noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • Nominalisierung noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • Substantivierung noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Greek

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  • ουσιαστικοποίηση noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • nominalisasi noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Italian

2 entries
  • nominalizzazione noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • sostantivazione noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Japanese

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  • 名詞化 noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Korean

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  • 명사화 noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Latvian

1 entries
  • nominalizācija noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Mongolian

4 entries
  • нэршил noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • нэршихүй noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • ᠨᠡᠷᠡᠰᠢᠬᠦᠢ noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • ᠨᠡᠷᠡᠰᠢᠯ noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • substantivering noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Polish

2 entries
  • nominalizacja noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantywizacja noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • nominalização noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantivação noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Russian

2 entries
  • номинализа́ция noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • субстантива́ция noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Spanish

2 entries
  • nominalización noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)
  • substantivación noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Turkish

1 entries
  • adlaştırma noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • danh từ hoá noun (use of a verb or an adjective as a noun)

Sample sentences

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I read the article "Syntactic Nominalization in Halkomelem Salish."

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Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract.

Source: wiktionary

The positive use of the feminine noun une rien has been gradually replaced by the nominalization of the pronoun and the adverb that commonly serve as negative auxiliaries, rien, un rien: “The word offers a short version of the evolution of the etymological meaning of chose inverted as néant (c. 1530)” (RT: DHLF)[…]

Source: wiktionary

Nominalization and agentless passives have attracted sustained attention in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), where, it is argued, they ‘mystify’, i.e., reduce reader comprehension of, the role of social actors in depictions of events, particularly in news media discourse.

Source: wiktionary

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