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  2. Construct state - Wikipedia

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    In Arabic grammar, the construct state is used to mark the first noun (the thing possessed) in the genitive construction. The second noun of the genitive construction (the possessor) is marked by the genitive case . In Arabic, the genitive construction is called إضافة ʼiḍāfah (literally "attachment") and the first and second nouns of ...

  3. Genitive construction - Wikipedia

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    A genitive construction involves two nouns, the head (or modified noun) and the dependent (or modifier noun). In dependent-marking languages, a dependent genitive noun modifies the head by expressing some property of it. For example, in the construction "John's jacket", "jacket" is the head and "John's" is the modifier, expressing a property of ...

  4. Head-directionality parameter - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In linguistics, head directionality is a proposed parameter that classifies languages according to whether they are head-initial (the head of a phrase precedes its complements) or head-final (the head follows its complements). The head is the element that determines the category of a phrase: for example, in a verb phrase, the head is a verb.

  5. Divine intervention - Wikipedia

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    Divine intervention is an event that occurs when a deity (i.e. God or a god) becomes actively involved in changing some situation in human affairs. In contrast to other kinds of divine action, the expression "divine intervention" implies that there is some kind of identifiable situation or state of affairs that a god chooses to get involved with, to intervene in, in order to change, end, or ...

  6. Arabic nouns and adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Nouns (‏ اِسْمٌ ‎ ism) and adjectives in Classical Arabic are declined according to the following properties: Case ( حَالَةٌ ḥāla) ( nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct) Gender (masculine or feminine): an inherent characteristic of nouns, but part of the declension of adjectives.

  7. Intervention (law) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In law, intervention is a procedure to allow a nonparty, called intervenor (also spelled intervener) to join ongoing litigation, either as a matter of right or at the discretion of the court, without the permission of the original litigants. The basic rationale for intervention is that a judgment in a particular case may affect the rights ...

  8. Romanian nouns - Wikipedia

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    Syntactically, Romanian nouns can be in any of five grammatical cases: nominative, when the noun is the subject; accusative, when the noun is the direct object, often also required by prepositions; genitive, when the noun shows the possessor; dative, when the noun shows the receiver of an action;

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    bound to, forming a noun from an adjective by dropping -ic and adding -tide. Greek - πεπτός (- peptós), adjective-forming suffix denoting: bound to, relating to, able to, suited to Glycopeptide Nucleotide Peptide: toco-childbirth Greek τόκος (tókos) tocolytic, dystocia-tome: cutting instrument Greek τομή (tomḗ), intersection ...