noun class

English

Noun

noun class (plural noun classes)

1. (linguistics) A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organised according to meaning, such as sex, animacy or shape. This is a prominent feature of some of the world's languages, notably the Bantu language family.

Translations

a category into which nouns may be organised

• Dutch: nominale klasse f
• French: classe nominale f
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• German: Nominalklasse f
• Swahili: ngeli (sw)