English-Dutch translations for predicative

• predicatief

Definition of predicative

• Used after a verb, as a predicate;
• An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival

Examples

• In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.

Related words

• predicatively
• predicative adverbial
• predicative adjective
• predicative case
• predicative expression