Defining Nouns
calendar_month 10 Iul 2015, 00:00
This compound nouns can appear very long and hard translated into Romanian by adjectives. Therefore, the translation can be used prepositions or more adjacent sentences.
´Nouns modifiers´ from "Gramatica limbii engleze contemporane" - Baby food = mancare pentru copii, car keys = chei de maşina, action movie hero = erou de filme de actiune, one little beer mug = halba de bere de un litru, apartament lease agreement = contract de inchiriere a apartamentului, capital income tax report = declaratie fiscala pentru taxele din venituri capitale, family house fire insurance = asigurare de casa impotriva incendiilor, world class football player = fotbalist de renume mondial, vegetable fibre dog food = hrana cu fibre vegetale pentru caini, fresh human blood cell analysis = analiza celulelor din sangele uman proaspat recoltat, evening beginners table tennis lessons = lectii serale de tenis de masa pentru incepatori.
A noun is that part of speech used as the name of a person, an animal, a place, a job title, a thing, an action, a quality, a state. Nouns can function as - the subject of a verb, the direct object of a verb, the indirect object of a verb, the object of a preposition, the complement of the verb ´to be´, an apposition and as direct address.
Look at the following compound nouns from ´English Grammar and Practice for Advanced Learners, A Text-Based Approach´ - door-knocker, bottle-opener, nut-cracker, pair-bonding, coal-mining, window dresser, sight-seeing, fortune-seeking, coffee-grinder, snow-blower, glass-cutter, skz-scraper, garbage-disposal, blood-grouping, tax gatherer, city planning, wigmaker, child-minder, team teaching, woolgathering, tongue lashing, vampire slayer, holiday - maker, bodice-ripper, tearjerker, draft dodger, matchmaker, cliffhanger, blockbuster, gold digger, home-maker, fortune-teller, breadwinner, window-shopper.
Here are some movie titles based on compounds - ´Blade Runner´, ´The Sin Eater´, ´Hellraiser´, ´Ladykillers´, ´The Homecoming´, ´The Song Catcher´, ´Dreamcatcher´, ´Ghostbusters´, ´The Body Snatchers´, ´The Horse Wisperer´, ´Dragonslayer´, ´The Deer Hunter´, ´Spring Breakers´, ´Jack the Giant-Slayer´.
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