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 Translation for 'proper noun' from English to Danish
NOUN1   Saami | proper noun
NOUN2   a proper noun | proper nouns
SYNO proper name | proper noun
ling.
proper noun
egennavn {n}
ling.
noun
navneord {n}
ling.
noun
substantiv {n}
ling.
verbal noun
verbalsubstantiv {n}
proper {adj}rigtig
proper {adj}passende
ling.
proper name
egennavn {n}
ling.
proper name
proprium {n}
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Usage Examples English
  • The word "Studentbalen" is a proper noun meaning "The Student Ball," while the word studentbal is a common noun that can refer to any formal dinner and dance at a Swedish university.
  • Unlike the other council areas of Scotland, the name "Highland" is often not used as a proper noun.
  • For example, the proper noun "Britain" has the associated descriptive adjective "British" and the demonym "Briton".
  • The Greek word means "death" or "doom" and appears as a proper noun in the singular and plural as Κήρ and Κῆρες to refer to divinities.
  • The definite article is omitted when a weak proper noun is used attributively (e.g. "Hague residents are concerned ...", "... eight pints of Thames water ...").

  • ... "Give me a proper noun", or "Give me an adjective"), and these words are inserted into pre-composed sentences with a correct grammatical structure, but in which certain words have been omitted.
  • According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name "Malachi" is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of "messenger of Yah".
  • While "web site" was the original spelling (sometimes capitalized "Web site", since "Web" is a proper noun when referring to the World Wide Web), this variant has become rarely used, and "website" has become the standard spelling.
  • The Zaidis of the Indian subcontinent use the proper noun "Wasiti" as a form of self-identification.
  • It is important to remember that "(r)i" can be used for object marker of transitive verb and proper noun maker.

  • "Jet Ski" is a proper noun and registered trademark of Kawasaki.
  • When it came into common use, most publications treated the word "Internet" as a capitalized proper noun; this has become less common.
  • As a proper noun, " [...] " is always capitalised in Serbian, whereas postponed adjectives in names and titles are not (cf. ...
  • Commonly, Greek male surnames end in -s, which is the common ending for Greek masculine proper nouns in the nominative case.
  • Proper nouns and other exceptions to the usual rules are allowed in some limited contexts in the spin-off game "Scrabble Trickster".

  • Diminutives of [...] include [...] and the latter's double diminutive [...] , which can be occasionally used as a particle in a proper noun.
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