In linguistics, a distributive numeral, or distributive number word, is a word that answers "how many times each?" or "how many at a time?", such as singly...
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Another set of numeral adjectives, similar to the above but differing in the adjectives for 1, 3, and 4, were the distributive numerals: singulī, bīnī...
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Distributive case, in linguistics Distributive numeral, in linguistics This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Distributive...
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mathematics English numerals (in particular the Cardinal numbers section) Distributive number Multiplier Nominal numeral Numeral for examples of number...
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linguistics, a numeral in the broadest sense is a word or phrase that describes a numerical quantity. Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer...
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Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin...
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The Japanese numerals (数詞, sūshi) are numerals that are used in Japanese. In writing, they are the same as the Chinese numerals, and large numbers follow...
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cardinal numerals, which represent quantity (e.g., "three") and other types of numerals. In traditional grammar, all numerals, including ordinal numerals, are...
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(ordinal numerals, e.g., "first", and multiplier numerals, e.g., "single") and adverbs (multiplicative numerals, e.g., "once", and distributive numerals, e...
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prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary. The adjective octuple (Latin octu-plus) may also...
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natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written...
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Classifier (linguistics) (redirect from Numeral classifiers)
beings; ea with numerals 'two', 'four' and 'twenty'; gɔtɛn (variant gɔtɜc) with numerals from 'five' to 'ten' and with the distributive numerals. uni 3SG.M...
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the University of Tel Aviv. In 1982, he defended his PhD thesis Distributive Numerals at the University of California, Los Angeles. Riau Indonesian: A...
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The native numbers are categorized into four types: cardinal, ordinal, distributive, and multiplicative (also referred to as "viceral" or "adverbial"). The...
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Santali language (section Numerals)
(transcribed into Latin script IPA) are: The numerals are used with numeral classifiers. Distributive numerals are formed by reduplicating the first consonant...
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English number words include numerals and various words derived from them, as well as a large number of words borrowed from other languages. Cardinal numbers...
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Multiplier (linguistics) (category Numerals)
in technical use, though duplex is more common. Cardinal number Distributive number Ordinal number Multiple (mathematics) Numeral (linguistics) v t e...
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Gothic declension (section Other numerals)
English, indicates that all forms are constructed in this fashion. Distributive numerals answer the question "how many at a time?". The isolated form tweihnái...
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Latin declension (section Declension of numerals)
numeral words in Latin: the two most common are cardinal numerals and ordinal numerals. There are also several more rare numerals, e.g., distributive...
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Manchu language (section Numerals)
numerals are formed with the suffix -ci, before which stem-final -n is elided (except in juwanci "tenth" and tumenci "tenthousandth"). Distributive numerals...
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Grammatical number (redirect from Distributive plural)
(plural) baarɛɛ - "dogs in different locations" (distributive plural) In Dagaare, the distributive plural may indicate either referents in different...
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Enets language (section Numerals)
with cardinal numerals, e.g. siðe e̮ʃ 'we two, the two of us'. Distributive numerals are postpositional constructions of cardinals, combined with the...
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to shrink, huddle up mrim-: a division of (a numeral) nan-: two people (kinship); distributive numeral ni-, n-, -in-, -n-: past, perfective pa-: causative...
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Tamil possesses a special numerical character for zero (see Old Tamil numerals below), which is read as andru (literally, no/nothing). Modern Tamil words...
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Old High German declension (section Numerals)
the remaining ordinals follow the weak declension. Other numeral forms: Distributive numerals, e.g. einluzze "one by one", zwiske "two by two". Multiplicatives...
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Navajo grammar (section Numerals)
larger numbers and with a distributive plural prefix) The combining form łaʼ- is used in the compound łaʼ-tsʼáadah "11". The numeral tááʼ loses the final ʼ...
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Slovincian grammar (section Numeral stress patterns)
cardinal numeral counterparts. The distributive numerals formed with ⟨po-, pô-⟩ place the accent on the prefix up to 40. Fractional numerals formed with...
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Classical Kʼicheʼ (section Numerals)
the third (N)'. Only the ordinal 'first' is suppletive: nabʼeʼ. Distributive numerals can be formed by reduplication of the first syllable (ka-kabʼ 'two...
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operators with a given arity follow the naming conventions of n-based numeral systems, such as binary and hexadecimal. A Latin prefix is combined with...
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This is a list of English determiners. All cardinal numerals are also included.: 385 a / an the that / those this / these we / us you them (In some dialects...
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