countable

English

Etymology

to count + -able

Adjective

Wikipedia Wikipedia

countable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being counted; having a quantity or a numerical attribute.
2. (mathematics, of a set) Having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers.
3. (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
4. (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers, and therefore having a plural form.

Synonyms

• (having a bijection with a subset...): denumerable

Antonyms

• uncountable

Hyponyms

• (having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers): finite
• (countably infinite): countably infinite

Hypernyms

• (countably infinite): infinite

Derived terms

• countable set
• countable additivity

Related terms

• countability

Translations

capable of being counted

• Czech: spočitatelný (cs)
• Dutch: telbaar (nl), telbare (nl)
• French: dénombrable (fr)
• German: zählbar (de)
• Hindi: गणनीय (hi)
• Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu)
• Italian: enumerabile (it)

• Japanese: 数えられる (ja) (kazoerareru)
• Manx: yn-choontey (gv)
• Romanian: numărabil (ro) m and n
• Russian: исчислимый (ru) (isčislímyj)
• Slovene: števen (sl)
• Spanish: contable (es)
• Walloon: contåve (wa)
• Welsh: rhifadwy (cy)

having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers

• Czech: spočetný (cs) m
• Dutch: aftelbaar (nl)
• Finnish: numeroituva (fi)
• French: dénombrable (fr)
• German: abzählbar (de)
• Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu)

• Italian: ‎finito o numerabile , (uncommon anglicism) contabile (it)
• Japanese: 可算 (ja) (kasan)
• Polish: przeliczalny (pl)
• Slovene: števen (sl)
• Spanish: numerable (es)
• Swedish: uppräknelig (sv)

freely used with numbers and the definite article

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可數 (cmn), 可数 (cmn) (kěshǔ)

• Czech: počitatelný (cs) m
• Dutch: telbaar (nl), telbare (nl)
• Estonian: loenduv (et)
• French: dénombrable (fr)
• German: zählbar (de)

• Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu)
• Italian: numerabile (it)
• Japanese: 可算 (ja) (かさん, kasan)
• Polish: policzalny (pl) m
• Russian: исчисляемый (ru) (isčisljájemyj)
• Slovene: števen (sl)
• Swedish: räknebar (sv)

See also

• mass noun
• plurale tantum