Predicative

Quick meaning: Predicative is an adjective meaning (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun from within a predicate.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.
2. (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.

Example Sentences

in predicative position

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.

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.

Word Forms

• predicatives

Synonyms for predicative

Depending on context, synonyms include predicate.

Antonyms for predicative

Common opposites include attributive, prenominal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include endopassive, depronominal, deponent, phraseologic, prefixing, antigrammatical.

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