English
Noun
common noun (plural common nouns )
A noun that denotes any member , or all members, of a class ; an ordinary noun such as "dog" or "city".
2001 , Eoin Colfer , Artemis Fowl , page 15 :The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. It had always been that way. Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.
Usage notes
In English, most common nouns can be preceded by an indefinite article , but there are exceptions (one does not normally say "there is a molybdenum on earth", for instance, instead saying "there is molybdenum on earth"). Many common nouns are also uncapitalized, but some are capitalized (e.g. Frenchman ) and the distinction between capitalized vs uncapitalized nouns should not be confused with the distinction between proper and common nouns.
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Translations
noun that denotes any member or all members of a class
Armenian: հասարակ անուն (hy) ( hasarak anun )
Azerbaijani: umumi isim
Bashkir: уртаҡ исем ( urtaq isem )
Bulgarian: (please verify ) съществително нарицателно ( sǎštestvitelno naricatelno )
Cebuano: pangsagaran
Central Dusun: boros ngaran koizaai
Chinese:
Mandarin: 普通名詞 / 普通名词 (zh) ( pǔtōng míngcí ) , 普通名词 (zh) ( pǔtōng míngcí )
Czech: obecné jméno n
Danish: appellativ (da) , fællesnavn (da)
Dutch: soortnaam (nl) m
Esperanto: komuna substantivo
Faroese: felagsnavn n
Finnish: yleisnimi (fi) , appellatiivi (fi)
French: nom appellatif m , nom commun (fr) m
Georgian: საზოგადო სახელი ( sazogado saxeli ) , საზოგადო არსებითი სახელი ( sazogado arsebiti saxeli )
German: Gattungsname (de) m , Gattungsbezeichnung (de) f , Appellativ (de) n , Appellativum (de) n
Greek: κοινό ουσιαστικό n ( koinó ousiastikó )
Ancient Greek: προσηγορία f ( prosēgoría )
Hungarian: köznév (hu)
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Icelandic: samnafn (is) n
Irish: ainmfhocal coitianta m
Italian: nome comune (it) m
Japanese: 普通名詞 (ja) ( futsūmeishi ) , 一般名詞 ( ippanmeishi )
Kalmyk: шишлң нерн ( şişlñ nern )
Khmer: សាធារណនាម ( sa thea rak nak neam ) , នាមសាធារណ៍ ( neam sa thea )
Korean: 보통명사 (ko) ( botongmyeongsa ) (普通名詞 (ko) )
Latvian: sugas vārds (lv) m
Malay: kata nama am
Norwegian: appellativ , fellesnavn (no) , samnamn
Occitan: nom comun m
Old English: ġemǣnelīċ nama m
Polish: rzeczownik pospolity m
Portuguese: substantivo comum m
Romanian: nume comun (ro) n
Russian: и́мя нарица́тельное (ru) n ( ímja naricátelʹnoje ) , апелляти́в (ru) ( apelljatív )
Scottish Gaelic: ainmear gnàthach m
Spanish: nombre común (es) m , sustantivo común (es) m
Swedish: appellativ (sv)
Thai: สามานยนาม (th) ( sǎa-maan-yá-naam )
Turkish: cins isim (tr)
See also