determiner

See also déterminer

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

to determine + -er

Noun

determiner (plural determiners)

1. (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. [from 1945] Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
2. (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
3. Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
   • 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log

     The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• (word class) determinative

Derived terms

• (in grammar): determiner phrase

See also

• Category:English determiners
• Category:Determiners by language
• article
• demonstrative

Translations

class of words

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 限定詞 (cmn), 限定词 (cmn) (xiàndìngcí)

• Dutch: determinator (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tarkenne (fi)
• French: déterminant (fr) m

• German: Determinativ (de) n, Determinierer (de) m
• Japanese: 限定詞 (ja) (げんていし, genteishi)
• Russian: определяющее слово (ru) (opredeljájuščeje slóvo) n, детерминатив (ru) (determinatív) m
• Spanish: determinante (es) m

dependent function in a noun phrase

• Dutch: determinator (nl) m

something that determines

• Dutch: aanwijzer (nl) m

• Finnish: määrittäjä (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• French: déterminant m

References

determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

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Latin

Verb

dēterminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēterminō