English-Finnish translations for singulative

• singulatiivi

Definition of singulative

• Of or pertaining to a grammatical form or construction that expresses the individuation of a single referent from a mass noun
• A singulative form or construction

Examples

• English doesnt have a singulative number in general, but many uncountable nouns have usual singulative constructions.
• The singulative of "cattle" is "a head of cattle".
• The singulative of "scissors" is "a pair of scissors".

Related words

• singular
• singularity
• singularly
• singularitarian
• nonsingular
• singularization
• nonsingularity
• Singularitarianism
• singularizer