predicative

English

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Alternative forms

• prædicative (dated)

Etymology

predicate +‎ -ive

Adjective

predicative (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal) Used after a verb, as a predicate; contrasted with attributive.

   In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.

Antonyms

• attributive

Derived terms

• predicatively
• predicative adjective

Translations

used after a verb

• Dutch: predicatief (nl)
• French: attribut (fr) m
• Russian: предикативный (ru) (predikatívnyj)

• Scottish Gaelic: aisneiseach (gd)
• Swedish: predikativ (sv)

Noun

predicative (plural predicatives)

1. (grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.

Examples

• He seems nice. (adjectival predicative of the subject)
• Bob is a postman. (nominal predicative of the subject)
• We painted the door white. (adjectival predicative of the object)
• They elected him president. (nominal predicative of the object)

Translations

an element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: predicatief
• French: attribut (fr) m
• Greek: κατηγορούμενο (el) (katigoroúmeno) n
• Indonesian: predikatif

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: orzecznik m
• Russian: именная часть составного сказуемого (ru) (imennája čast' sostavnógo skazújemogo) f, предикатив (ru) (predikatív) m
• Swedish: predikativ (sv)

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Italian

Adjective

predicative f

1. Feminine plural form of predicativo

Anagrams

• deprecativi