noun class

English

Noun

noun class (plural noun classes)

1. (linguistics) A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organised according to meaning, such as sex, animacy or shape. This is a prominent feature of some of the world's languages, notably the Bantu language family.

Translations

a category into which nouns may be organised

• Afrikaans: naamwoordklas
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: nominale klasse f
• Finnish: substantiiviluokka
• French: classe nominale f
• German: Nominalklasse f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: именно́й класс m (imennój klass)
• Swahili: ngeli (sw)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can