Category:English nouns

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English terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.

For more information, see Appendix:English nouns.

• Category:English noun forms: English nouns that are inflected to display grammatical relations other than the main form.
• Category:English agent nouns: English nouns that denote an agent that performs the action denoted by the verb from which the noun is derived.
• Category:English collective nouns: English nouns that indicate groups of related things or beings, without the need of grammatical pluralization.
• Category:English compound nouns: English nouns composed of two or more stems.
• Category:English countable nouns: English nouns that can be quantified directly by numerals.
• Category:English diminutive nouns: English nouns that are derived from a base word to convey endearment, small size or small intensity.
• Category:English nouns by inflection type: English nouns organized by the type of inflection they follow.
• Category:English nominalized adjectives: English adjectives that are used as nouns.
• Category:English nouns with other-gender equivalents: English nouns that refer to gendered concepts (e.g. actor vs. actress, king vs. queen) and have corresponding other-gender equivalent terms.
• Category:English pluralia tantum: English nouns that are mostly or exclusively used in the plural form.
• Category:English proper nouns: English nouns that indicate individual entities, such as names of persons, places or organizations.
• Category:English singularia tantum: English nouns that are mostly or exclusively used in the singular form.
• Category:English nouns with unattested plurals: English nouns with unattested plurals.
• Category:English uncountable nouns: English nouns that indicate qualities, ideas, unbounded mass or other abstract concepts that cannot be quantified directly by numerals.
• Category:English verbal nouns: English nouns morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning.