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COUNTABLE NOUN [1 record]

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Record 1 1991-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grammar
DEF

A noun that forms a plural and is used with a numeral, with words such as many or few, or in English with the indefinite article a or an (as bean, stick, sheet, beer in "a dark beer") - contrasted with mass noun.

CONT

In all the languages referred to here certain words may be used either as "mass" or "countable" nouns.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grammaire
CONT

Une autre différence non négligeable entre «peu» et «un peu» s'explique par le fait que le dernier ne peut jamais être employé avec les noms dénombrables tandis que «peu de» s'emploie avec les noms dénombrables et non dénombrables.

OBS

dénombrable : peut être compté et dénombré

Spanish

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