Nouns Flashcards
Common names
Refer to most general things:country, evening, pen,umbrella
Proper nouns
The name that identifies someone or something, a person or a place,
*Proper names are capitalized
Concrete nouns
Represent a thing that is real and tangible: pig, person, rock?smell, air, soup
قابل لمس باشه
Abstract nouns
Represents a thing that is more like a concept or idea: love, democracy,friendship
احساسیه و قابل لمس نیست
Denominal nouns
Is formed from another noun, usually by adding a suffix
Librarian -library
Guitarist -guitar
Verbal nouns
Sometimes called a gerund, is derived from a verb
⭕️his firing of William was a mistake
Countable &uncountable nouns
countable and uncountable version
glass : Countable/لیوان Uncountable/شیشه
iron: آهن اتو
business: تبلیغات شرکت
paper: کاغذ روزنامه
light: نور چراغ
time: زمان فرصت
space: فضا فضای خالی
A singular noun ending in s, x, z, ch, sh makes the plural by adding-es.
busesو….
A singular noun ending in f makes the plural by adding-ves.
leaf => leaves ,wife => wives
A singular noun ending in a consonant and then y makes the plural by dropping the y and adding-ies.
penny => pennies
اسم های که جمع شون تغییری نمیکنه
Sheep, fish, deer, species,aircraft
Collective nouns
Refer to a group of people + singular verb
Audience, team, bunch, family, class, crew, staff, news, athletics, linguistics, darts,biliards
⭕️The hotel staff is very kind
*Police is a collective noun with a plural verb
⭕️Police are coming
woman women
man men
child children
tooth teeth
foot feet
person people
leaf leaves
mouse mice
goose geese
half halves
knife knives
wife wives
life lives
elf elves
loaf loaves
potato potatoes
tomato tomatoes
cactus cacti
focus foci
fungus fungi
nucleus nuclei
syllabus syllabi/syllabuses
analysis analyses
diagnosis diagnoses
oasis oases
thesis theses
crisis crises
phenomenon phenomena
criterion criteria
datum data
