noun's

Languages can require speakers to change pronouns, adjective and verb endings, possessives, numerals, and so on, depending on the noun's gender.

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Languages can require speakers to change pronouns, adjective and verb endings, possessives, numerals, and so on, depending on the noun's gender.

How Does Our Language Shape The Way We Think By Lera Boroditsky William Harryman 2009

Since the definition for 'censor' used the word 'official' as a noun, we go to the noun's definition: "a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties."

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When you're hanging out with your gay friend who's in his mid thirties, and you want to ask about Tom, that guy he's been with for a decade, the noun's a pain in the ass.

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In each of these instances the noun's referent is an interpretive construction by historical actors and historians, and one that may be undone by future historians.

Philosophy of History Little, Daniel 2007

"If a tree's a noun, a noun's a tree -- or should be, and if 'tain't, then grammar's foolish and I don't want none of it --"

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. dismissed the idea that an adjective with the same root as a noun always absorbs the noun's meaning: You have craft and crafty.

NYT > Home Page 2011

Schoolhouse Rock, remembers that a noun's a person, place, or thing.

Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2010

Research has shown that there is a weak effect-for example speakers of languages in which all nouns are gendered ( "el tiroteo," "die Tür,") are more likely to assign feminine or masculine adjectives to inanimate objects based on the noun's gender, when asked to personify those nouns in a survey, though not necessarily in everyday speech (i.e. the German speakers will personify "the door" with feminine adjectives).

Sketchy Thoughts 2010

In Latin dictionaries, nouns listed will indicate the nominative and the genitive singular forms of the noun; this enables an experienced reader to determine the rest of that noun's declension, even if he or she has not encountered it before.

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