zero ending

短语

词形变化

zero endings 复数 zero endings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The absence of an ending after a noun‐stem in a language in which endings are normally applied; often written as ∅.

    语言学

    The Polish word for "cat" is "kot". Its genitive form is "kota", which has the ending "–a". Because the nominative form consists of the stem without an ending, it can be said that "kot" has the zero ending. In a table listing the endings one could hence write: "Nominative: –∅, Genitive: –a".