Noun (4675 bytes)
1: ...from [[Latin]] ''nomen'' meaning "[[name]]" (as a noun can be considered an [[object]], [[person]], or [...
3: ...e objects (e.g. chair, apple, Janet) and abstract nouns refer to ideas or concepts (e.g. justice, libert...
5: ...bjects (of which "letter" is a noun and "me" a pronoun).
7: ==Proper noun==
8: Proper nouns (also called ''proper names'') are names and denote unique entities.

Mass noun (2842 bytes)
1: ...can refer to one or more of these things. A mass noun denotes ''stuff'', or a substance. Stuff, unlike...
3: Some illustrative examples of English mass nouns:
11: ...chine, i.e. dirty clothes. A "laundry" as a count noun is an establishment which washes clothes, also kn...
13: ... "There is laundry on my street." (must be a mass noun)
14: ...here is a laundry on my street." (must be a count noun)

Count noun (4927 bytes)
1: ...n Chinese]], which marks count(ed) nouns with a [[noun classifier]]:
8: ...lish, which treat mass nouns differently when the noun refers to a group of people:
12: ...thers are count nouns. In American English, mass nouns referring to groups of people take a singular ve...
14: ...rin to illustrate some further points about count nouns:
17: In both cases, the word "book" is a count noun, and in Mandarin take the classifier "ben3"

Noun phrase (895 bytes)
1: ...a phrase whose [[Head (linguistics)|Head]] is a [[noun]].
3: ...s a noun phrase. Single pronouns can also act as noun phrases.
5: ...n [[English language|English]], for some purposes noun phrases can be treated as single grammatical unit...

Concrete noun (194 bytes)
3: ... with your five senses. Contrast with [[abstract noun]].

Abstract noun (696 bytes)
3: ...ste, hear, see, smell). Contrast with [[concrete noun]].

Verbal noun (1071 bytes)
1: A '''verbal noun''' is a [[noun]] formed directly as an [[inflexion]] of a [[verb...
3: Examples of the verbal noun in English sentences:
5: ...eak'' and ''to listen'' are infinitives acting as nouns; in other words: Speaking means that one is not ...
6: ...[[participle]]s, or infinitives in -ing acting as nouns; in other words, gerunds)
9: ...ase, almost every noun would actually be a verbal noun, which is hardly the case.

Collective noun (5539 bytes)
1: ...ase "a pride of lions", ''pride'' is a collective noun.
3: Such nouns are not compulsory, and are in general not widel...
5: ...ich are not subject-specific, are also collective nouns.
9: ...ct of hunting"). For this reason, most collective nouns refer to animals.
11: ...15th century]]. Many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harass of horses" doesn't seem t...

Finnish language noun cases (13180 bytes)
1: ... [[Finnish language grammar]] page for more about nouns and other aspects of Finnish grammar.
119: ...minative case|Nominative]]: The basic form of the noun
126: ...t gradation: mäki -> mäen, talo -> talon. For the nouns and adjectives that have two vowel stems, the we...
133: ...un 'ken' and the [[Grammatical person|personal pronouns]]
147: :With nouns, accusative is morphologically similar to the ge...

Initial-stress-derived noun (4327 bytes)
1: ...ords differs from area to area. Perhaps 100 verb-noun (or adjective) pairs exist in total. Some exampl...
11: ...labic word, and the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb, it will probably fit into this pat...
19: ...''police/umbrella'' because in that dialect these nouns (along with ''cigarette'', ''insurance'', and ma...
42: ...n both cases, the verb precedes the slash and the noun follows it).
46: * ''hand out'' (written as one word when a noun)

Proper name (6154 bytes)
1: ...ling anything about it". The problem of defining proper names, and of explaining their meaning, is one of...
3: == The problem of proper names ==
5: ...d as any, though it is ultimately not helpful. A proper name tells us ''which'' thing is in question, wit...
10: == Theories of proper names ==
12: Many theories have been proposed about proper names, none of them entirely satisfactory.

Proper (1117 bytes)
1: == Proper in control theory ==
2: '''Proper''' denotes a [[transfer function]] where the [[De...
5: The following transfer function is '''proper'''
9: ...he following transfer function however, is '''not proper'''
15: A proper transfer function will never grow unbounded as th...

Proper length (512 bytes)
1: ...nce frame because of [[Lorentz contraction]]. The proper length <math>ds</math> in a general geometry may ...
3: ...'proper distance''' between two points A,B is the proper length of the [[geodesic]] that connects A,B (usu...

Serbia proper (1622 bytes)
1: [[Image:SerbiaMontenegro-SerbiaProper.png|right|]]
3: The term "'''Serbia proper'''" is often used in [[English language|English]]...
7: ... Serbian territorial unity. The region of "Serbia proper" is not an administrative division and is called ...

Necessary and Proper Clause (751 bytes)
1: ...g the creation of any law seen as "necessary" or "proper" regardless of its mention in the [[United States...
3: ... in the Constitution, Congress felt necessary and proper to pass it into law.

Tavastia Proper (1788 bytes)
1: ... to the regions [[Finland Proper (region)|Finland Proper]], [[Satakunta (region)|Satakunta]], [[Pirkanmaa]...
4: name=Tavastia Proper|
14: coatofarms=[[Image:Tavastia Proper.png|Coat of Arms]]|
15: map=[[Image:Tavastia Proper map.png|150px|Map]]|
22: ''Main article: [[Tavastia Proper Regional Council]]''

Finland proper (434 bytes)
1: '''Finland proper''' might refer to:
3: == Finland Proper ==
4: *[[Finland Proper]] - a historical province of the Kingdom of Swede...
5: *[[Finland Proper (region)|Finland Proper]] - a current region of the Republic of Finland
14: *[[Sweden proper]]

Sweden proper (1119 bytes)
1: '''Sweden proper''', or ''Egentliga Sverige'', is a term used to d...
3: ...it was fully integrated and became part of Sweden proper.
5: Sweden proper is, as opposed to [[Finland Proper]], a geographical reference that has changed over...

China proper (7917 bytes)
1: ...ritories commonly considered to be outside "China proper" include [[Taiwan]], [[Xinjiang]], [[Tibet]], [[M...
3: ...ina proper" and "China". They go on to call China proper "China", and the regions for which they want to s...
5: ... affect the contemporary interpretation of "China Proper".
9: ... the 5 regions it governed: [[Manchuria]], China proper, [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]]....
11: The general rough extent given for China proper is as follows: it is bounded north by [[Inner Mon...

Finland Proper (2047 bytes)
1: ...Finland Proper (region)|Finland Proper]]. Finland Proper is not to be confused with [[Mainland Finland]].
5: name=Finland Proper|name_swe=Egentliga Finland|name_fin=Varsinais-Suo...
7: ...|Region]]|bdata=[[Finland Proper (region)|Finland Proper]]|area=-|
8: ...per.png|Coat of Arms]]|map=[[Image:svpmap_finland_proper.png|200px|Map]]|}}
13: '''Finland Proper''' is comprised within the boundaries of the admi...

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