determiner

See also: déterminer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English determine

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English determiner

From determine + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɚ/

Noun

determiner (plural determiners)

1. Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
   1. A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.

      Near-synonym: definer

      In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.

      • 1901, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log:

        The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]

   2. Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.

      Near-synonyms: decider, decisor, disposer, definer, arbiter, arbitrator, decisionmaker

      He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]

      Who is the determiner? [administratively or theologically]

      The software is the determiner if no input is given before the prompt times out.

2. (grammar)
   2. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

      Hypernym: function word

      Hyponyms: article (i.e., a, an, the); demonstrative determiner (e.g., this, that, these, those); possessive determiner; cardinal number (e.g., 3, three, 51, fifty-one); quantifier (e.g., most, any, much, each); predeterminer, central determiner, postdeterminer

      Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)

      Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.

   4. A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.

      Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)

      In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:determiner.

Derived terms

• (grammar): determiner phrase, predeterminer, postdeterminer, null determiner, determinerhood, determinerless

Translations

class of words — see also determinative

• Arabic: مُحَدِّدَة f (muḥaddida)
• Belarusian: дэтэрмінаты́ў m (determinatýw)
• Bengali: নির্ণায়ক (bn) (nirnaẏok)
• Bulgarian: детермина́нта f (determinánta)
• Catalan: determinant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 限定詞 / 限定词 (zh) (xiàndìngcí), 限定語 / 限定语 (xiàndìngyǔ)

• Czech: determinátor m
• Danish: determinator c
• Dutch: determinator (nl) m
• Esperanto: determinanto
• Finnish: determinatiivipronomini (considered a subclass or use of pronouns)
• French: déterminant (fr) m
• German: related terms: Artikelwort (de) n, Determinans (de) n, Determinativ (de) n, Determinierer m
• Greek: προσδιοριστής (el) m (prosdioristís)
• Hungarian: determináns (hu), névelőféle, melléknévi értékben álló névmás
• Irish: cinntitheach m
• Italian: aggettivo determinativo m
• Japanese: 限定詞 (げんていし, genteishi)
• Korean: 한정사(限定詞) (hanjeongsa), 관형사(冠形詞) (ko) (gwanhyeongsa)
• Lithuanian: determinantas
• Macedonian: детермина́нта f (determinánta)
• Malay: penunjuk (ms)
• Māori: (kupu) pūmau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тодотгогч (mn) (todotgogč), тодотгогч үг (todotgogč üg), тодотгол үг (todotgol üg)

  Mongolian script: ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠭᠴᠢ (tododqaɣči), ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠭᠴᠢ
  ᠦᠭᠡ (tododqaɣči üge), ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠯ
  ᠦᠭᠡ (tododqal üge)

• Norwegian: determinativ (no) n, bestemmelsesord n

  Bokmål: determinativ (no) n

  Nynorsk: determinativ n

• Persian: دترمینان (fa) (determinânt)
• Polish: określnik (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: determinante (pt) m
• Romanian: determinant (ro) m or n
• Russian: определя́ющее сло́во n (opredeljájuščeje slóvo), детерминати́в (ru) m (dɛtɛrminatív)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: детермина̀нта f

  Latin: determinànta (sh) f

• Spanish: determinante (es) m
• Swedish: determinant (sv) n
• Tajik: муайянкунандаи (tg) (muayyankunanda-yi)
• Thai: ดีเทอร์มิเนอร์
• Ukrainian: визна́чник n (vyznáčnyk), детермінати́в m (determinatýv)
• Urdu: دترمینان
• Uzbek: mezondir
• Vietnamese: định thức (vi), từ hạn định
• Welsh: banodolyn m

dependent function in a noun phrase

• Dutch: determinator (nl) m
• Finnish: tarkenne
• Italian: determinante (it) m
• Polish: określnik (pl) m inan

something that determines

• Dutch: aanwijzer (nl) m
• Finnish: määrittäjä
• Italian: determinante (it) m
• Polish: determinant (pl) m inan, determinanta f
• Portuguese: determinador m
• Spanish: determinador m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} déterminant (fr) m

See also

• Category:English determiners
• Category:Determiners by language
• article
• demonstrative

References

• “determiner”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

Further reading

• What Is a Determiner? scribbr.com

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin dēterminō.

Verb

determiner

1. to determine

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of determiner (first conjugation)

infinitive	determiner, determiné
auxiliary verb	avea		gerund		determinan
past participle	determiné
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	ie	tu	el / ela	nos	vos	ei / eles
present	determine, determineie	determines, determineies	determina, determineia, determinea	determinon	determineis	determina, determineia
imperfect	determinove	determinoves	determinova	determinovan	determinovais	determinova
future	determinaré	determinaras	determinarà	determinaron	determinareis	determinarà
subjunctive	che ie	che tu	che el / ela	che nos	che vos	che ei / eles
present	determine, determineie	determines, determineies	determine, determineie	determinon	determineis	determine
imperfect	determinasse	determinasses	determinassa	determinassan	determinassais	determinassa
imperative	–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
	—	determina, determineia	—	determinon	determinede	—

Latin

Verb

dēterminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēterminō