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common noun plural common nouns
A noun that denotes any member , or all members, of a class ; an ordinary noun such as dog or city .
2001 Eoin Colfer , Artemis Fowl , page 15 :The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. It had always been that way. Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.
In English, most common nouns can be preceded by an indefinite article , but there are exceptions (one does not normally say there is a molybdenum on earth , for instance, instead saying there is molybdenum on earth ). Many common nouns are also uncapitalized, but some are capitalized (e.g. Frenchman ) and the distinction between capitalized vs uncapitalized nouns should not be confused with the distinction between proper and common nouns. In contrast, a proper noun is a single named entity such as Socrates . noun that denotes any member or all members of a class
Armenian: հասարակ անուն (hy) ( hasarak anun )
Azerbaijani: umumi isim
Bashkir: уртаҡ исем ( urtaq isem )
Belarusian: агу́льнае і́мя n ( ahúlʹnaje ímja ) , і́мя агу́льнае n ( ímja ahúlʹnaje ) , і́мя назо́ўнае n ( ímja nazóŭnaje ) , і́мя звыча́йнае n ( ímja zvyčájnaje )
Bulgarian: нарица́телно и́ме n ( naricátelno íme ) , съществи́телно нарица́телно и́ме n ( sǎštestvítelno naricátelno íme )
Cebuano: pangsagaran
Central Dusun: boros ngaran koizaai
Chinese:
Mandarin: 普通名詞 ／ 普通名词 (zh) ( pǔtōng míngcí )
Czech: obecné jméno n
Danish: appellativ (da) , fællesnavn (da)
Dutch: soortnaam (nl) m
Esperanto: komuna substantivo
Faroese: felagsnavn n
Finnish: yleisnimi (fi) , appellatiivi (fi)
French: nom appellatif m nom commun (fr) m
Galician: nome común (gl) m
Georgian: საზოგადო სახელი ( sazogado saxeli ) , საზოგადო არსებითი სახელი ( sazogado arsebiti saxeli )
German: Gattungsname (de) m Gattungsbezeichnung (de) f Appellativ (de) n Appellativum (de) n
Greek: κοινό ουσιαστικό n ( koinó ousiastikó )
Ancient Greek: προσηγορία f ( prosēgoría )
Hungarian: köznév (hu)
Icelandic: samnafn (is) n
Irish: ainmfhocal coitianta m
Italian: nome comune (it) m
Japanese: 普通名詞 (ja) ( futsūmeishi ) , 一般名詞 ( ippanmeishi )
Kalmyk: шишлң нерн ( şişlñ nern )
Khmer: សាធារណនាម ( sa thea rak nak neam ) , នាមសាធារណ៍ ( neam sa thea )
Korean: 보통명사(普通名詞) (ko) ( botongmyeongsa )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: navdêrê giştî m
Latvian: sugas vārds (lv) m
Malay: kata nama am (ms)
Malayalam: സാമാന്യനാമം (ml) ( sāmānyanāmaṁ )
Norwegian: appellativ fellesnavn (no) , samnamn
Occitan: nom comun m
Old English: ġemǣnelīċ nama m
Polish: rzeczownik pospolity m apelatiwum (pl) n appellativum (pl) n apelatyw (pl) m nazwa pospolita f
Portuguese: substantivo comum m
Romanian: substantiv comun (ro) n
Russian: и́мя нарица́тельное (ru) n ( ímja naricátelʹnoje ) , апелляти́в (ru) ( apelljatív )
Scottish Gaelic: ainmear gnàthach m
Slovak: apelatívum n všeobecné meno n
Slovene: občno ime n
Spanish: nombre común (es) m sustantivo común (es) m
Swedish: appellativ (sv)
Tagalog: pangngalang pambalana
Thai: สามานยนาม (th) ( sǎa-maan-yá-naam )
Turkish: cins isim (tr)
Ukrainian: зага́льна на́зва f ( zahálʹna názva )
Vietnamese: danh từ chung
Welsh: enw cyffredin m
