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10 Language-to-English DictionariesNon-count
/ˈnɒn.kaʊnt/Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Designating a noun that does not typically have a plural form and cannot be modified by indefinite articles (such as 'a' or 'an') without a partitive construction.
"The word 'water' is a non-count noun, so you cannot say 'a water'."
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A non-count noun.
"Grammars often distinguish between counts and non-counts in English."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term is a compound formed from the negative prefix 'non-' (derived from Latin 'non', meaning 'not') and 'count' (derived from Latin 'computare', meaning 'to calculate or sum up'). Emerging in modern linguistic and grammatical discourse during the mid-20th century, it describes nouns that lack a plural form because they denote a mass or abstract concept rather than discrete, individual units.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Non-count" is said worldwide
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non comptable
Transliteration: nɔ̃ kɔ̃ptabl
"Le mot 'information' est un nom non comptable en français."
unzählbar
Transliteration: ˈʊnt͡sɛːlbaːɐ̯
"Im Englischen ist 'furniture' ein unzählbares Nomen."
non numerabile
Transliteration: non numerabile
"I sostantivi non numerabili non hanno una forma plurale."
incontable
Transliteration: inkonˈtable
"El sustantivo 'agua' es un término incontable."
incontável
Transliteration: ĩkõˈtavɛw
"Substantivos incontáveis não admitem plural direto."
अगणनीय
Transliteration: agananiya
"अंग्रेजी में 'milk' एक अगणनीय संज्ञा है।"
不可数
Transliteration: bù kě shǔ
Script: 不可数名词
"在英语中，'information' 是一个不可数名词。"
불가산
Transliteration: bulgasan
Script: 불가산 명사
"영어에서 'water'는 불가산 명사입니다."
不可算
Transliteration: fukasan
Script: 不可算名詞
"英語の「information」は不可算名詞です。"
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