noun
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Then "grünen" indicates that the noun will be plural and green in color.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026
Although it is obsolete in this sense, the verb survives in Welsh English in the sense of to scratch, especially with claws or fingernails, along with the noun use, to scratch.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
When you’re more naive, you think of it as like a noun, but it’s a doing thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025
I don’t think there’s any directive that you have to have a noun in your title that refers to a woman, whether it’s wife, girl, sister.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2019
Once you have learned that in English the article comes before the noun, you don’t have to relearn that order every time you acquire a new noun, such as hashtag, app, or MOOC.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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