ADJ | relative | more relative | most relative | |
NOUN | a relative | relatives | |
SYNO | comparative | congenator | congener | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- d'importance relative = of relative importance [postpos.]
- majorité {f} relative = simple majority
- majorité {f} relative = plurality [Am.]
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- The relative concords are used to concord with relatives and relative clauses.
- Relative clauses in Roviana follow the head N and are introduced by an invariant relative marker sapu.
- Spore production is highest at midday, relative to temperature increase and relative humidity decrease.
- Note: The relative pronoun "jo" can be used as both relative "what" and relative "who".
- French, like English, uses relative pronouns to introduce relative clauses.
- For more information on the formation and uses of relative clauses—with and without relative pronouns—see Relative clause.
- Another grammatical feature signalled by mutations is relative clause attachment, in which lenition indicates the beginning of a relative clause, often in place of any explicit relative pronoun (although in some cases the verbal ending also changes to a special relative form).
- The syntactic position or function of the relativizer in the relative clause is a major determiner for the choice of relative marker.
- "Relative bioavailability" compares the bioavailability between two different dosage forms.
- In languages with head-final relative clauses, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish, non-reduced relative clauses may also cause temporary ambiguity because the relativizer does not precede the relative clause (and thus a person reading or hearing the relative clause has no "warning" that they are in a relative clause).
- Economic theory views absolute and relative scarcity as distinct concepts and "...quick in emphasizing that it is relative scarcity that defines economics."
- Conversely, when the elasticity of substitution is greater than one, the second effect dominates: the reduction in relative quantity exceeds the increase in relative price, so that relative expenditure on [...] falls.
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