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Meaning of "subordinative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBORDINATIVE

subordinative  [səˈbɔːdɪnətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBORDINATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subordinative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SUBORDINATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of subordinative in the English dictionary

The definition of subordinative in the dictionary is of, tending towards, or indicating subordination. Other definition of subordinative is indicating a syntactic construction in which one or more clauses are dependent on the main clause.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBORDINATIVE


agglutinative
əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv
carminative
ˈkɑːmɪnətɪv
co-ordinative
kəʊˈɔːdɪnətɪv
coordinative
kəʊˈɔːdɪnətɪv
denominative
dɪˈnɒmɪnətɪv
determinative
dɪˈtɜːmɪnətɪv
discriminative
dɪˈskrɪmɪnətɪv
dominative
ˈdɒmɪnətɪv
eliminative
ɪˈlɪmɪnətɪv
fascinative
ˈfæsɪnətɪv
germinative
ˈdʒɜːmɪnətɪv
illuminative
ɪˈluːmɪnətɪv
imaginative
ɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv
nominative
ˈnɒmɪnətɪv
originative
əˈrɪdʒɪnətɪv
predestinative
priːˈdɛstɪnətɪv
recriminative
rɪˈkrɪmɪnətɪv
ruminative
ˈruːmɪnətɪv
terminative
ˈtɜːmɪnətɪv
unimaginative
ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBORDINATIVE

suborder
subordinal
subordinancy
subordinaries
subordinary
subordinate
subordinate clause
subordinated debt
subordinately
subordinateness
subordinating conjunction
subordination
subordinationism
subordinationist
subordinator
suborganisation
suborganization
suborn
subornation
subornative

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBORDINATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
creative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of subordinative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «subordinative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBORDINATIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

隶属
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subordinative
570 millions of speakers

English

subordinative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

subordinative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

subordinative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подчинительная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de subordinação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

subordinative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de subordination
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Subordinatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

subordinative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

従属する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

subordinative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subordinatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

subordinative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

subordinative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मितभाषी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tamlama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

subordinative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

subordinative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підрядний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subordinative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποτακτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

subordinative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

subordinative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

subordinative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subordinative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBORDINATIVE»

The term «subordinative» is used very little and occupies the 183.028 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBORDINATIVE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBORDINATIVE»

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Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society
TA and TA+O Theme 2 subordinative form: (3p--1p) nuttinnehukqunnan 'that they treat us so' (49:20-21). TI and Tl-0 subordinative forms: (1--0). TI-1b: nuttinanuhummin 'I bought it (thus, for so much)' (10:11-12; cf. 9:20-21), nittut anishskattum ...
American Philosophical Society, Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon
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The Bilingual Lexicon
2 Compound versus Subordinative Representation The compound and subordinative systems (but labelled the "concept mediation model" and "word association model", respectively) are the main focus of an article by Potter et al. ( 1984) and ...
Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens, 1993
3
Accent & Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy
Both verbs in the conjoined subordinate clauses in (26) are Subordinative I forms . This mode is also used in purpose clauses and in complement clauses in causative constructions, while the Independent Indicative is used in subordinate  ...
Philip S. LeSourd, 2013
4
A Grammar of Spoken Chinese
Since we have discussed both subordinative compounds and subordinative phrases in the preceding chapter, we shall devote the main part of the present chapter to illustrating in detail the various types of subordinative compounds and limit ...
Yuen Ren Chao, 1968
5
Handbook of North American Indians: Languages
SUBORDINATIVE MOOD A subordinative verb expresses an event concomitant with or accompanying what is expressed by the verb on which it depends. Used independently, the subordinative has the force of the indicative or of the optative  ...
William C. Sturtevant, Ives Goddard, 1996
6
The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook
Subordinative In a few cases in texts from southern Babylonia and from Kiš, Sargonic Akkadian uses the subordinative marker -ni after verbal forms ending in a vowel (Hasselbach 2005, 206): da-ba-ša-ḫi-ni /tapaššaḫīni/ 'you shall verily find ...
Stefan Weninger, 2011
7
Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity
4.1.2 The syntactic function of causatives Among the inflectional moods in Yup'ik is one termed the 'subordinative'. The Yup'ik subordinative does much more than mark syntactically subordinate clauses within sentences. It also links sentences ...
Robert M. W. Dixon, 2000
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax
The Navajo passage in (18) contains three indicative clauses and three subordinate clauses. The corresponding Yup'ik passage in (19) contains no indicative clauses at all. Of the ten dependent clauses, seven are subordinative, two ...
Silvia Luraghi, Claudia Parodi, 2013
9
Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism
What we have, then, is a cluster of syntactically connected clauses, extending from line 19b to line 23a, whose verbs lack the subordinative ending, and which together make up a self-contained piece of narrative about the fate of two particular ...
Martin Worthington, 2012
10
Language
Endocentric constructions are of two kinds, co-ordinative (or serial) and subordinative (or attributive). In the former type the resultant phrase belongs to the same form-class as two or more of the constituents. Thus, the phrase boys and girls ...
‎1994

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBORDINATIVE»

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Literary discourse: Phrases, clauses and sentences [part two]
Complex sentence: a sentence made up of one or more dependent clauses connected to an independent clause by one or more subordinative conjunctions. «GhanaWeb, Apr 15»
2
Analizzare un periodo
... si differenziano in due categorie finalizzate a distinguere le frasi che uniscono; esistono le congiunzioni chiamate coordinative e quelle subordinative. «Italianotizie, Apr 13»
3
La funzione della congiunzione
Le congiunzioni si differenziano in ben due categoria, le coordinative e le subordinative e sono denominate tali solo perché introducono all'interno della frase ... «Italianotizie, Apr 13»
4
INTERVIEW: Ex-diplomat Magosaki reveals Japan's postwar taboo
“But since the end of the Cold War, Japan's diplomacy has become increasingly subordinative to Washington in the face of ever-strengthening diplomatic ... «Asahi Shimbun, Aug 12»

REFERENCE
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