predicative

English

Alternative forms

• prædicative (obsolete)

Etymology

From predicate +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv/, /ˈpɹɛ.də.kə.tɪv/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

Examples
This house is big (big is predicative) This is a big house (here big is attributive)

predicative (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun from within a predicate.

   Coordinate terms: attributive; subjective

   in predicative position

Derived terms

• nonpredicative
• predicative adjective
• predicative adverbial
• predicative case
• predicatively
• predicativism
• predicativist
• predicativity
• prepredicative

Translations

used after a verb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 作表語的 / 作表语的 (zuò biǎoyǔ de)

• Danish: prædikativ
• Dutch: predicatief (nl)
• Esperanto: predikativa
• Finnish: predikatiivinen
• French: attributif (fr) (false friend)
• Georgian: გარემოება (garemoeba)
• German: prädikativ (de)
• Greek: κατηγορηματικός (el) m (katigorimatikós)
• Italian: predicativo
• Norwegian: predikativ (no)
• Occitan: atributiu
• Polish: orzecznikowy (pl)
• Portuguese: predicativo (pt)
• Russian: предикати́вный (ru) (predikatívnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: aisneiseach
• Spanish: predicativo
• Swedish: predikativ (sv)
• Turkish: yüklemcil (tr)
• Welsh: traethiadol

See also

• postpositive
• prepositive

Noun

Examples
He seems nice. (adjectival predicative of the subject) Bob is a postman. (nominal predicative of the subject) We painted the door white. (adjectival predicative of the object) They elected him president. (nominal predicative of the object)

predicative (plural predicatives)

1. (grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
2. (grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.
   • 1957, Morton Benson, “The Problem of Predicatives in Russian”, in The Slavic and East European Journal, volume 1, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 285:

     A predicative in Russian is an uninflected word that regularly constitutes a complete utterance when standing alone, i.e., when preceded and followed by silence.

   • 2013, Sergey Say, “On the Nature of Dative Arguments in Russian Constructions with “Predicatives””, in I. Kor Chahine, editor, Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics (Studies in Language Companion Series), page 226:

     Traditional grammars usually differentiate between neuter short adjectives and predicatives based on whether there is an overt nominative subject; hence курение вредно ‘smoking (noun) is harmful’ is viewed as a clause with nominative subject, zero copula and neuter short form adjective that agrees with the subject in gender, whereas курить вредно (same meaning, literally ‘to smoke is harmful’) is often viewed as an impersonal clause with predicative.

Translations

element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 表語 / 表语 (zh) (biǎoyǔ)

• Finnish: predikatiivi (fi)
• French: attribut (fr) m
• German: Prädikativum (de) n, Prädikativ (de) n
• Greek: κατηγορούμενο (el) n (katigoroúmeno)
• Indonesian: predikatif (id)
• Japanese: 述詞 (jutsushi), 叙述語 (jojutsugo)
• Occitan: atribut (oc) m
• Polish: orzecznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: predicativo (pt) m
• Russian: именна́я часть составно́го сказу́емого (ru) f (imennája častʹ sostavnóvo skazújemovo), предикати́в (ru) m (predikatív)
• Slovak: přísudkový
• Slovene: predikativna
• Spanish: predicativo m, complemento predicativo m
• Swedish: predikativ (sv)
• Tajik: мустанадӣ (mustanadi)
• Turkmen: predikatiw

a part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being

• Polish: predykatyw (pl) m
• Russian: предикати́в (ru) m (predikatív), катего́рия состоя́ния (ru) f (kategórija sostojánija)
• Ukrainian: предикати́в m (predykatýv)

Italian

Adjective

predicative

1. feminine plural of predicativo

Anagrams

• deprecativi