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PRONUNCIATION OF CARDINAL NUMERAL

cardinal numeral  [ˈkɑːdɪn əl ˈnjuːmərəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CARDINAL NUMERAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cardinal numeral is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CARDINAL NUMERAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cardinal number (linguistics)

In linguistics, more precisely in traditional grammar, a cardinal number or cardinal numeral is a part of speech used to count, such as the English words one, two, three, but also compounds like three hundred and forty-two. Cardinal numbers are classified as definite numerals and are related to ordinal numbers, such as first, second, third, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CARDINAL NUMERAL


admiral
ˈædmərəl
antitumoral
ˌæntɪˈtjuːmərəl
bicameral
baɪˈkæmərəl
cameral
ˈkæmərəl
ephemeral
ɪˈfɛmərəl
femerell
ˈfemərəl
femoral
ˈfɛmərəl
hephthemimeral
ˌhɛfθɪˈmɪmərəl
hexameral
hɛkˈsæmərəl
humeral
ˈhjuːmərəl
humoral
ˈhjuːmərəl
metameral
mɪˈtæmərəl
nemoral
ˈnɛmərəl
neurohumoral
ˌnjʊərəʊˈhjuːmərəl
numeral
ˈnjuːmərəl
nychthemeral
nɪkˈθiːmərəl
penthemimeral
ˌpɛnθɪˈmɪmərəl
superhumeral
ˌsuːpəˈhjuːmərəl
tetrameral
tɛˈtræmərəl
unicameral
ˌjuːnɪˈkæmərəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CARDINAL NUMERAL

cardinal
cardinal beetle
cardinal fish
cardinal flower
cardinal grosbeak
cardinal humour
cardinal number
cardinal points
cardinal red
cardinal sin
cardinal spider
cardinal virtues
cardinal vowels
cardinalate
cardinalatial
cardinalitial
cardinality
cardinally
cardinalship
carding

WORDS THAT END LIKE CARDINAL NUMERAL

ahemeral
Arabic numeral
attorney general
bilateral
collateral
director general
director-general
Distrito Federal
federal
four-star general
funeral
general
in general
lateral
liberal
literal
mineral
peripheral
Roman numeral
several

Synonyms and antonyms of cardinal numeral in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cardinal numeral» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CARDINAL NUMERAL

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The translations of cardinal numeral from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cardinal numeral» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

基本数字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cardinal numeral
570 millions of speakers

English

cardinal numeral
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्डिनल अंक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكاردينال الأرقام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кардинал цифра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

numeral cardinal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অঙ্কবাচক সংখ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cardinal chiffre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Angka kardinal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kardinalzeichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

基数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

추기경 번호
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angka kardinal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đức Hồng y chữ số
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கார்டினல் எண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुख्य अंक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kardinal sayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

numerale cardinale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kardynał liczebnik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кардинал цифра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cardinal numeral
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καρδινάλιος αριθμητικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kardinaalgetal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cardinal siffran
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kardinal tall
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cardinal numeral

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CARDINAL NUMERAL»

The term «cardinal numeral» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.293 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CARDINAL NUMERAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cardinal numeral

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARDINAL NUMERAL»

Discover the use of cardinal numeral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cardinal numeral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cardinal Numerals: Old English from a Cross-linguistic ...
The book embeds an analysis of the Old English numeral system and its particularities into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion and provides a theoretical framework for the general study of numeral systems.
Ferdinand von Mengden, 2010
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Grammar: A Student's Guide
There are also longer cardinal numeral expressions, composed of such words, such as: • three hundred and forty-two • twenty-five thousand Contrasts Cardinal contrasts primarily with ordinal, the other kind of numeral. Cardinal numeral, as a  ...
James R. Hurford, 1994
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Language System and its Change: On Theory and Testability
The questionnaire concentrated on the following aspects: — cardinal numerals, — ordinal numerals, - distributive numerals ('one each' etc.), — multiplicative numerals ('once' etc.), — cardinal numeral + noun of the following types: human,  ...
Jadranka Gvozdanovic, 1985
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The Use of English Determiners in Dialogue Journals by ...
Adriana Rodrigues Bridger. This assignment - central determiner (demonstrative) 10 or 12 times - postdeterminer (cardinal numeral) this chance - central determiner (demonstrative) Student 6 Entry 1 No occurrences of other determiners Entry ...
Adriana Rodrigues Bridger, 2008
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Glossary of Hindi/Urdu and English linguistic terminology : ...
ansarthl -, partitive numeral [see visesan]; apurn -, fractional numeral [see visesan]; avftti -, proportional numeral [see visesan]; ganan — , cardinal numeral [ see visesan]; gananavaci -, cardinal numeral [see visesan]; gunan -, iterative numeral ...
Umberto Nardella, 2008
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Bellum Helveticum: A Beginner's Book in Latin
... 171 quadraginta, indeclinable cardinal (numeral) adjective [quattuor, four], forty quadringenti, -ae, -a, cardinal (numeral) adjective [quattuor, four, centum, hundred], four hundred quaerd, quaerere, quaesivi or quaesii, quaesitum, ask qualis, ...
Arthur Lee Janes, Paul Rockwell Jenks, Arthur Tappan Walker, 1913
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Introduction to Classical Nahuatl
A cardinal numeral in Nahuatl is structured on the absolutive-state NNC formula. Like pronominal NNCs, cardinal-numeral NNCs do not occur in the possessive state. Like noun- stems, cardinal-numeral stems may be embedded in ...
James Richard Andrews, 2003
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Rethinking Grammaticalization: New Perspectives
The grammaticalization cline postulated here starts with a referential expression denoting a body part to a cardinal numeral and leads on to a functional affix which occurs in numeral systems and marks arithmetical operations in complex ...
María José López-Couso, Elena Seoane, 2008
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Koromfe
Recall also that the presence of an attributive cardinal numeral requires that there be no NP-initial article a. Two examples from natural speech are given in ( 694)—(695); the phrase (696) was elicited. (694) ba bo ke kina nagsa ba hii PRON.
John Rennison, 2013
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Universals of Human Language: Word structure
1 The scope of cardinal numeral systems By the scope of a cardinal numeral system will be meant the set of numbers which can be expressed in it. It is important to distinguish, as is usually done, between a number and a numeral expression.
Joseph Harold Greenberg, Charles Albert Ferguson, Edith A. Moravcsik, 1978

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARDINAL NUMERAL»

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Heineken Cup: Money woes leave English feeling bleu
The champions have taken a liking to the lowest cardinal numeral: they are the No 1 seeds in the No 1 pool of the No 1 club tournament in ... «Independent, Oct 08»

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