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English
Etymology
From determine + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
determiner (plural determiners)
- (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
Definite articles and indefinite articles are types of determiners.
- (grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
- Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.
1901, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log:The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]
- Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition.
He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]
Who is the determiner? [administratively or theologically]
Quotations
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- (word class): article (a/an, the), demonstrative determiner (this, that, these, those), possessive determiner, cardinal number (three, 50), quantifier (most, any, much, each)
Derived terms
Translations
class of words
- Arabic: مُحَدِّدَة f (muḥaddida)
- Belarusian: дэтэрмінаты́ў m (determinatýŭ)
- Bengali: নির্ণায়ক (bn) (nirnaẏok)
- Bulgarian: детермина́нта f (determinánta)
- Catalan: determinant (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 限定詞/限定词 (zh) (xiàndìngcí), 限定語/限定语 (xiàndìngyǔ)
- Danish: determinator c
- Dutch: determinator (nl) m
- Esperanto: determinanto
- Finnish: tarkenne
- French: déterminant (fr) m
- German: related terms: Artikelwort (de) n, Determinans (de) n, Determinativ (de) n, Determinierer m
- Greek: προσδιοριστής (el) m (prosdioristís)
- Hungarian: determináns (hu), névelőféle, melléknévi értékben álló névmás
- Irish: cinntitheach m
- Italian: determinante (it) m
- Japanese: 限定詞 (げんていし, genteishi)
- Korean: 한정사(限定詞) (hanjeongsa), 관형사(冠形詞) (ko) (gwanhyeongsa)
- Lithuanian: determinantas
- Macedonian: детермина́нта f (determinánta)
- Malay: penunjuk (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тодотгогч (mn) (todotgogč), тодотгогч үг (todotgogč üg), тодотгол үг (todotgol üg)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠭᠴᠢ (tododqaɣči), ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠭᠴᠢ
ᠦᠭᠡ (tododqaɣči üge), ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠯ ᠦᠭᠡ (tododqal üge)
- Norwegian: determinativ (no) n, bestemmelsesord n
- Bokmål: determinativ (no) n
- Nynorsk: determinativ n
- Persian: دترمینان (fa) (determinânt)
- Polish: określnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: determinante (pt) m
- Romanian: determinant (ro) m or n
- Russian: определя́ющее сло́во n (opredeljájuščeje slóvo), детерминати́в (ru) m (dɛtɛrminatív)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: детермина̀нта f
- Roman: determinànta (sh) f
- Spanish: determinante (es) m
- Swedish: determinant (sv) n
- Tajik: муайянкунандаи (tg) (muayyankunandayi)
- Thai: ดีเทอร์มิเนอร์
- Ukrainian: визна́чник n (vyznáčnyk), детермінати́в m (determinatýv)
- Urdu: دترمینان
- Uzbek: mezondir
- Vietnamese: định thức (vi)
- Welsh: banodolyn m
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dependent function in a noun phrase
something that determines
Translations to be checked
See also
References
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin dēterminō.
Verb
determiner
- to determine
Conjugation
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of determiner (first conjugation)
infinitive
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determiner, determiné
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auxiliary verb
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avea
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gerund
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determinan
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past participle
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determiné
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person
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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ie
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tu
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el / ela
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nos
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vos
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ei / eles
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present
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determine, determineie
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determines, determineies
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determina, determineia, determinea
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determinon
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determineis
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determina, determineia
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imperfect
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determinove
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determinoves
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determinova
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determinovan
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determinovais
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determinova
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future
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determinaré
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determinaras
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determinarà
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determinaron
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determinareis
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determinarà
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subjunctive
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che ie
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che tu
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che el / ela
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che nos
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che vos
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che ei / eles
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present
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determine, determineie
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determines, determineies
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determine, determineie
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determinon
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determineis
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determine
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imperfect
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determinasse
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determinasses
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determinassa
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determinassan
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determinassais
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determinassa
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nos
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vos
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–
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—
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determina, determineia
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—
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determinon
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determinede
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—
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Latin
Verb
dēterminer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēterminō