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nominalize
[ nom-uh-nl-ahyz ]
verb (used with object)
nominalized, nominalizing.
- to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- to convert (an underlying clause) into a noun phrase, as in changing he drinks to his drinking in I am worried about his drinking.
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Other 51Թ Forms
- Դdzi·Բ··tDz adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nominalize1
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
The nominalizing -’i and the indicative -ma are not fused form-affixes, they are simply additions of formal import.
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It may still be nominalized; inikwihl’minih’isit-’i means “the former small fires in the house, the little fires that were once burning in the house.”
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It may be definitely nominalized or verbalized by the affixing of elements that are exclusively nominal or verbal in force.
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