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Meaning of 体词

体词 means nominal; substantive term (collective term in Chinese grammar for nouns, pronouns, numerals, and classifiers). Pronounced tǐ cí.

  • nominal; substantive term (collective term in Chinese grammar for nouns, pronouns, numerals, and classifiers)

Definitions & Examples

zài
zi
zhōng
zhǔ
yào
zuò
zhǔ
 
bīn
 

Nominals mainly function as subjects and objects in sentences.

Míng
 
dài
 
shù
liàng
dōu
shǔ
 

Nouns, pronouns, numerals, and classifiers all belong to the category of nominals.

xiāng
duì
de
shì
wèi
 

The counterpart to nominals is predicates.

shòu
shù
liàng
de
xiū
shì
 

Nominals can be modified by numeral-classifier phrases.

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