Meaning

1 senses
  1. An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.

    In "this big house," big is an attributive, while in "this house is big," it is a predicative.

    определе́ниеopredelénije, атрибути́вatributív

Examples

2 sentences
  1. In Russian, attributive adjectives agree with nouns and pronouns in gender, number and case.

    ruВ русском языке прилагательные, выступающие в роли определения, согласуются с существительными и местоимениями в роде, числе и падеже. — sharptoothed

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  2. There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a word or phrase that modifies a noun and is part of the noun's noun phrase:

Forms

plural: attributives
Singularattributive
Pluralattributives

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
attributive — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto