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Meaning of determinative

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

determinative

noun

Definitions

  1. An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

  2. (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determinatives include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).

adjective

Definitions

  1. Determining (deciding) something.