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=How Adjectival Nouns are used in differnt Languages"=

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Maebaran (talk) 00:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

=Greek= Ancient Greek uses adjectival nouns substantively to remove the need for plural gender nouns such as, "men", "women" and "things". The use of these nouns are needed in English because they bare information about case, gender and number of the noun and the adjective modifying the noun does not. In English the adjective that is modifying that noun does carry that information. Ancient Greek is able to remove the noun entirely because adjectives present the same inflection of case number and gender as the noun that it is modifying does.

πολλαί PL. FEM. many the many women Balme & Lawall 2003

καλά PL. Nueter. beautiful the beautiful things Balme & Lawall 2003