countable noun

English

Noun

Wikipedia countable noun (plural countable nouns)

1. (OED 1914) a noun that has both singular and plural usage, though not necessarily two different forms.

   Examples:

   • girl: one girl, two girls
   • child: one child, two children
   • person: one person, two people
   • deer: one deer, two deer

Synonyms

• count noun

Antonyms

• mass noun
• non-count noun
• uncountable noun

Translations

countable noun

Chinese: Mandarin: 可數名詞 (zh), 可数名词 (zh) (kěshǔ míngcí) French : nom comptable (fr) m.

German: zählbares Nomen (de) n. Japanese: 可算名詞 (ja) (かさんめいし, kasan meishi) Russian: исчисляемое существительное (ru) (isčisljájemoje suščestvítel’noje) n.

See also

• collective noun