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/dɪˈtɜːrmənər/ · /dɪˈtɜːmənə/
A word used in front of a noun to show which thing you mean. In the phrases ‘the car’ and ‘some cars’, ‘the’ and ‘some’ are determiners.
限定詞
複數 determiners
核心畫面
A small word standing in front of a noun, pointing: which one, whose, how many. 'Car' is just a car. 'The car' is that one. 'My car' is mine. 'Some cars' is an handful.
一個小字站在名詞前面，負責「指認」。單講 car 只是「車」這個概念，沒有指向誰；一旦前面加上東西，範圍就被框住了—…更多收起
一個小字站在名詞前面，負責「指認」。單講 car 只是「車」這個概念，沒有指向誰；一旦前面加上東西，範圍就被框住了——the car（我們都知道的那台）、my car（我的那台）、this car（眼前這台）、some cars（幾台，沒說是哪幾台）、every car（每一台）。這些前置的小字就是 determiner，中文叫「限定詞」，限定的正是「哪一個、誰的、多少」。它不是形容詞：形容詞描述車長什麼樣（a red car），限定詞則決定你指的是哪一台。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
determinernoun/dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/
- 1
Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
- Near-synonym: definer
- In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.
- 2
Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
- Near-synonyms: decider, decisor, disposer, definer, arbiter, arbitrator, decisionmaker
- He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]
- 3
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
- Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)
- Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.
- 4
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
- Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)
- In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。