noun class

English

Noun

noun class (plural noun classes)

1. (linguistics) A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organized according to meaning, such as gender, animacy or shape.

Translations

a category into which nouns may be organised

• Afrikaans: naamwoordklas
• Amharic: የስም ማዕረግ (yäsm maʿräg)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名詞類別 / 名词类别 (míngcí lèibié)

• Dutch: nominale klasse f, nominale klasse
• Finnish: substantiiviluokka
• French: classe nominale f
• German: Nominalklasse f
• Malagasy: kilasin' anarana
• Portuguese: classe de substantivo f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: именно́й класс m (imennój klass)
• Swahili: ngeli (sw)
• Tagalog: uri ng pangngalan
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• noun class on Wikipedia.Wikipedia