determiners

Spanish translation: determinantes

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English term or phrase:	determiners
Spanish translation:	determinantes
Entered by:	Silvina Camperi

22:19 Feb 18, 2008

English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics / English Grammar

English term or phrase: determiners

"Determiners" are words like the, an, my, some. They are grammatically similar. They all come at the beginning of noun phrases, and usually we cannot use more than one determiner in the same noun phrase. They include articles; possessives; each, every, either, neither, any, some, no, much, many; more, most, little, less, least, few, fewer, fewest, what, whatever; which, whichever, both, half, all, several, enough.

Silvina Camperi KudoZ activity Questions: 122 (none open) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 48 Argentina
Local time: 18:34

determinante

Explanation:

Advanced English-Spanish VOX

determiner
[dɪ'tɜːmɪnər]
noun
1 LINGUISTICS determinante nombre masculino

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Babylon English-English

determiner
n. adjective or modifier that limits a noun (Grammar)

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Note added at 8 mins (2008-02-18 22:27:45 GMT)
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función desempeñada por un artículo o adjetivo determinativo (demostrativo, posesivo, indefinido...):
www-lsi.ugr.es/~gunkan/html/gunkan_nihongo/gunkan_nihongo_lec_gramatical_001.html

Selected response from:

Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
Ecuador
Local time: 16:34

Grading comment

Thanks a lot to everyone!
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Summary of answers provided

4 +8

determinante

Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.

3 +3

determinantes

Marian Vieyra

4 +1

(palabras) determinadoras

Lydia De Jorge

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

(palabras) determinadoras

Explanation:
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Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 16:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 62

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

determinante

Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
Ecuador
Local time: 16:34
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks a lot to everyone!

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

determinantes

Explanation:
RAE definition fits

Marian Vieyra
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:34
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

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