🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

名詞句

Pronunciation / Transliteration: meishi-ku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Noun phrase/ˈnaʊn freɪz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"「その大きな赤い車」は名詞句です。"

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As noun
  1. 1

    A word or group of words functioning as a noun, typically consisting of a noun and its modifiers.

    "In the sentence 'The big brown dog barked', 'The big brown dog' is a noun phrase."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in modern linguistics as a combination of 'noun' (from Middle English, from Latin nōmen) and 'phrase' (from French phrase, from Late Latin phrasis, from Greek phrasis 'diction').

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