noun phrase

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Examples

“Fred” in “Fred fell asleep at the keyboard.”
“The day Fred . . . keyboard” in “The day Fred fell asleep at the keyboard was very hot, and he had had too much to drink at lunchtime.”
“banana” (a noun)
“big bananas” (an adjective 'big', and a plural noun)
“a big banana” (an article 'a', an adjective and a singular noun)
“this big banana” (a determiner 'this', an adjective and a singular noun)
“a very big banana” (an article, an adverb 'very', defining an adjective, and a singular noun)
“a very big banana that tastes great” (an article, an adverb defining an adjective, and a singular noun; followed by a relative clause made up of a relative pronoun 'that', a verb 'tastes', and an adjective 'great')

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noun phrase (plural noun phrases)

(grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
The term "restaurant supply service" is a noun phrase, as are "red blood cell" and "happy cat".

Many collocations are noun phrases.

(types of phrases, by part of speech):

(parts of speech, of phrasal type):

phrase that can serve as the subject or the object of a verb

Basque: ^{(please verify)} izen-sintagma
Breton: rannfrazenn anv f, sintagm-anv m
Catalan: sintagma nominal m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 名詞短語／名词短语 (míngcí duǎnyǔ)
Dutch: nominale constituent m
Finnish: substantiivilauseke (fi), nominilauseke
French: groupe nominal (fr) m, syntagme nominal (fr) m
Galician: sintagma nominal (gl) m
German: Nominalphrase (de) f
Greek: ονοματική φράση (el) f (onomatikí frási)
Hungarian: főnévi csoport, főnévi kifejezés, főnévi szerkezet
Icelandic: nafnliður m
Interlingua: phrase substantival
Italian: locuzione nominale (it) f
Japanese: 名詞句 (めいしく, meishiku)
Khmer: កន្សោមនាម (kɑnsaom niem)
Korean: 명사구 (ko) (myeongsagu)
Malay: ^{(please verify)} frasa nama
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: substantivfrase (no) m

Norwegian Nynorsk: substantivfrase f
Persian: گروه اسمی (fa)
Polish: fraza rzeczownikowa f
Portuguese: locução substantiva (pt) f, locução nominal f
Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਨਾਂਵ ਵਾਕੰਸ਼ (nā̃v vākãś)
Romanian: locuțiune substantivală f
Russian: именно́е словосочета́ние n (imennóje slovosočetánije), субстанти́вное словосочета́ние n (substantívnoje slovosočetánije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: и̏меничка̄ фра́за f

Roman: ȉmeničkā fráza f
Spanish: sintagma nominal m, grupo nominal m
Swedish: nominalfras (sv) c
Turkish: ad öbeği
Vietnamese: cụm danh từ (vi)
Welsh: ymadrodd enwol m

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