What is a noun? – Education and Transformation

What is a noun? These are words that name actions, feelings, desires, ideas and beings – visible or not, animated or not. The noun has the function of naming everything that exists.

Examples:

• What is one little dot brilliant in road?
• One Bee in device dental.

See too: speech figures.

What is a noun?

Does the place where you live have a name? So this place, in the language, is a SUBSTANTIVE.

Nouns are classifier according to certain criteria. Check their types:

• Common and Own;
• Simple and Composite;
• Primitive and derivative;
• Concrete and abstract;
• Collective.

Proper noun:

• It is what names a specific being within a group: Paula, Europe, Rio São Francisco, AMERICA

Common Noun:

• It is what names a being as belonging to a class: Man, country, publisher, newspaper, child, orange, BOY

Concrete noun:

• This is what names beings with autonomous existence: Joseph, teacher, water, gold, tree, clothing, CASTLE

Abstract noun:

• It is what names beings or concepts whose existence depends on other beings; do not exist by themselves: Love, understanding, happiness, SLEEP

Simple noun:

• A simple noun is one formed by a single word. Examples: house, boy, paper, mother, money, tree, man, GLOVE

Compound Noun:

• A compound noun is one formed by two or more words. Examples: With a hyphen: pé-de-moleque, UMBRELLA, woodpecker. No hyphen: skydiver, sunflower, plateau, kick, dessert.

Primitive noun:

• Designates nouns not derived from others, those that do not come from another word in the language.  stone, newspaper, cat, man, earth, fire, light, plane.

Derived Noun:

• Designates nouns formed from an existing primitive noun in the language.  mason, journalist, kitten, homunculus, terrestrial, fire, light, aviator, feudalism.

Collective Noun:

• It is the common noun that names a set of beings:  School (of fish), constellation (of stars),

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Gender Flexion:

In Portuguese, nouns can be masculine or feminine.

The nouns to which the article can be placed are masculine: the book, the notebook, the telephone call.

Those to which the article can be placed before: the eraser, the pen, the tribe, the libido are feminine.

Also with regard to gender, depending on the form they take, the nouns are classified into biforms and uniforms.

Is gender the same thing as sex? Do not. Never confuse gender with sex. Gender is grammatical, that is, it shows whether the word is masculine or feminine.

Evidently, books, notebooks, erasers, pens, which are things, do not have a gender, although their names can be male or female. The noun victim, on the other hand, belongs to the female gender (the victim), although it can refer to people of both sexes.

What is biform noun?

They are nouns that designate people or animals and that have two forms, one for the masculine and the other for the feminine.

What is uniform noun?

They are the ones that have a single form, both for the male and for the female. They are subdivided into epicenes, common of two genera and supercommon.

Noun activities for early grades