nouns

plural of noun

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Recent Examples of nouns But reconstruction didn’t end with nouns and verbs. Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 Set in a medieval Spain, Bad Bunny and Hernandez were seen explaining to a cohort of scholars the reasoning behind why certain nouns were masculine or feminine. Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025 Borges tells us that in Tlön’s Ursprache there are no nouns; instead, there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic prefixes with an adverbial value. Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Nouns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nouns. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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