Is the word free an adjective

бесплатный, бесплатно, свободно, освобождать, выходной

прилагательное ↓

наречие ↓

глагол ↓

Словосочетания

a free translation of the poem — вольный перевод этого стихотворения /поэмы/  
a free booklet on drug abuse — бесплатный буклет по проблеме наркомании  
a sample for ten days free trial — образец продукции с десятидневным бесплатным пробным периодом  
campaign for tobacco-free kids — кампания за искоренение табакозависимости у детей  
tax-free certificate — свидетельство об освобождении от уплаты налогов  
free currency — свободно конвертируемая валюта  
free from defects — бездефектный  
to deliver free of charge — доставлять бесплатно  
milk-free diet — диета с исключением молока  
salt-free diet — бессолевая диета  
easy / free access — свободный доступ, открытый доступ  
the bag of duty-free — сумка беспошлинных товаров  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

freedom  — свобода, право, независимость, воля, вольность, приволье, привилегия
freely  — свободно, вольно, щедро, широко, обильно
freed  — освобожденный
freeing  — удаление, воды, освобождение, высвобождение
overfree  — слишком свободный, чрезвычайно раскованный

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: free
he/she/it: frees
ing ф. (present participle): freeing
2-я ф. (past tense): freed
3-я ф. (past participle): freed

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): freer
прев. степ. (superlative): freest

Recent Examples on the Web

ProPublica on Thursday revealed Thomas accepted free luxury vacations worth millions for years, all courtesy of Crow, without disclosing the pricey trips as required by law.


—oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023




Lululemon is also offering free memberships to those who are avid fans of the brand.


—Josie Howell | , al, 7 Apr. 2023




Car show admission is $8 for adults, $3 for children age 6 to 12, and free for age 5 and younger.


—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023




In the national title game April 2, Marshall scored 12 points − knocking down two 3-pointers and going 4-for-4 at the free-throw line − in a 102-85 loss to LSU.


—Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2023




The crooks can then have free access to your vehicle.


—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023




There are exceptions: If someone hosts a justice at their own property, free food and lodging don’t have to be disclosed.


—Joshua Kaplan, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023




The series, which takes place nine years after the events of A New Hope, depicts a galaxy suddenly free from the yolk of imperial control.


—Joshua St. Clair, Men’s Health, 6 Apr. 2023




Most bank accounts allow free cash withdrawals from the bank’s own ATMs, but charge a fee to use any other ATM.


—Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 Apr. 2023

In 2020, the space agency awarded Axiom Space up to $140 million to make at least one module to attach to the ISS, which c ould eventually be part of a new free-flying station.


—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023




Verlander helped Houston win the World Series for the second time in six seasons and won his third AL Cy Young Award before signing an $86.7 million, two-year contract with the free-spending Mets.


—San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2023




Since late 2020, Xi’s administration has made clear its distaste for the free-wheeling capitalism that tech giants like Alibaba embodied.


—Anders Melin, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023




But what came next was still to be expected — a year of free-falling.


—Curbed, 21 Dec. 2022




The art also depicted phalluses, free-standing or attached to human figures.


—Bybridget Alex, science.org, 7 Dec. 2022




Nearly all of its world map was a free-roaming open area, but the sections were still cordoned off from one another by way of a central hub town.


—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2022




One particularly stunning route will take you to Bridal Veil Falls, the tallest free-falling waterfall in Colorado.


—Marissa Wolkenberg, Bon Appétit, 26 Sep. 2022




This year, Broward Health wants to expand by building a $25 million free-standing Emergency Room in Sunrise and by spending $6 million to lease and renovate a building across from its main hospital in Fort Lauderdale to move its executive offices and create multipurpose space.


—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022

The plan includes trying to get people stabilized and able to support themselves within the 12-month grant period, ideally within a few months to free up more money.


—Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023




The governors of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa all announced emergency or disaster declarations to help free up immediate funding and assistance for the communities most impacted by the storms.


—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023




And at just $20, this budget-friendly hack is guaranteed to free up plenty of room in even your carry-on bags.


—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2023




The detergent sheets dissolve completely in the wash, freeing up space for more clothes, towels, or other items.


—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023




Biden approved a disaster declaration for the state, which frees up federal funds for temporary housing, home repairs and loans to cover uninsured property losses.


—Colleen Long And Michael Goldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023




Along with freeing up space in your refrigerator, investing in a chest freezer may help save you trips to the supermarket.


—Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023




The floor space freed up by putting the plug-in hybrid supercars onto a single assembly line could be used to build Lamborghini’s next new model, a full electric car expected to be unveiled in 2028, WInkelmann said.


—Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023




With Freeman and Betts still in their prime, Urías and Kershaw still anchoring the rotation, and more than $100 million in last year’s payroll freed up at the start of the offseason, this could have been a moment for the Dodgers to go all-in.


—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023


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I wrote this sentence:  «Hong Kong was one of the freeest cities on earth».  My automated spell checker flagged «freeest», so I changed it to «freest», and the spell checker let that stand.  But in my mind I was still saying «free‧est», with two syllables, whereas when I see «freest», it’s very hard for me to think of that as having two syllables.  So how are we to pronounce the superlative degree of the adjective «free»?

Relevant entries from Wiktionary here:

Adjective

freest

1. 1. superlative form of free: most free quotations ▼

Verb

freest

1. 1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of free

and here:

Adjective

freeest

1. 1. Misspelling of freest. quotations ▼

Similar considerations pertain to the comparative degree of the adjective «free», viz., «freeer» vs. «freer».

Everywhere I see «freeer» and «freeest» described as «common misspellings».

Here’s a post on the subject by Jakub Marian on his blog, Jakub Marian’s Language learning, science & art:

«‘Freeer’ vs. ‘freer’ (triple ‘e’) in English»

This is a common mistake in English. Since the comparative form of an adjective is formed by simply sticking “er” to the end of an adjective (apart from a few irregular adjectives like “good/better”), learners and native speakers alike sometimes think that when something is “more free”, it should be “freeer”. The truth is that there is not a single word in English whose standard spelling would contain “eee”. The simple rule is:

If you think there should be three e’s in a row, write only two.

For example, “most free” would be “freest”, not “freeest”. Note, however, that “freest” is pronounced as if it were written as “freeest”, i.e. /friːɪst/. The same goes for “freer”, pronounced as /ˈfriːə(r)/. “Free” is in fact the only adjective ending in “ee”, apart from compound words formed from it, e.g. “carefree” which are not comparable, so there are no words like “carefreer”….

It seems that, in this case, orthographic estheticism rebels at, and wins over, strict phoneticism.

July 3, 2020 @ 8:44 am
· Filed by Victor Mair under Errors, Esthetics, Pronunciation, Spelling

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So the question seems to have become, more generally, «What’s a noun?»
That’s a good question, and worth answering.

Let me start by mentioning the fact that most English speakers’ idea of what noun means comes from grade school

(i.e, what we used to call «grammar school», which is a very ironic term for linguists, since nobody ever learns English grammar in «grammar school» — it’s not taught in Anglophone schools — and nobody ever studies English grammar after «grammar school»).

Consequently, almost all discussion of English grammar conducted by adults is conducted at about the third-grade level, because that’s where one finds the audience. This leads to things like looking up grammatical terms in a dictionary, which is about as useful as looking up natural logarithms in a dictionary. Noun is not defined in advance; it’s determined by use.

Noun (from Latin nomen ‘name’) was one of the Partes Orationis ‘parts of speech’, a categorization from the late Roman Empire that was memorized by every schoolboy learning Latin (which meant every schoolboy) for well over a millennium.

The problem is the usual one with old conceptual machinery that’s been sitting around for 1500 years — parts are rusty and the original use is no longer useful and nobody talks that way any more — so we have new parts of speech, with their own acronym — POS. The problem is that anybody can see there’s more than 8 kinds of word. For sure, noun is one; but there’s different kinds of noun. There’s countable nouns and mass nouns. There’s animate nouns and neuter nouns. There’s abstract nouns and concrete nouns. And that’s only nouns — verbs have many more varieties; verbs run everything.

We were taught in grammar school that nouns are words that mean «a person, place, or thing». That sounds really definitive, until you get to nouns like diagonalization, homeostasis, or presentiment.

In fact, this is precisely backward. Nouns are not always persons, places, or things; but persons, places, and things are always nouns. So it’s part right — the easy third-grade part. As for the rest, it depends in part on how precise you want to get — there are parsers with several hundred POS categories — and in part what kind of analysis you want to do. Nouns in general are distinguished by their use in sentences. There has to be a noun (or at least a pronoun) in every noun phrase, and there has to be a noun phrase in every English sentence — though it doesn’t have to be audible, it does have to be understood.

Only nouns (and pronouns, which are usually easy to recognize because they’re a closed class) can be subjects and objects of verbs in English. Which is to say that

• Anything used as the subject or object of an English sentence can be considered a noun.
  This includes multi-word constituents like subordinate clauses and prepositional phrases.

And this mean that being a noun is not a label stuck to a word in a dictionary, but to a constituent in a sentence. For instance, anything, including direct speech, following He said is a noun in that sentence. Any sentence preceding is a shame is a noun in that sentence. One’s an object and the other’s a subject, and there’s an infinite number of each.

OK, so with an adjective that’s got an article, like the free and the brave, you have a fixed phrase that means the free people and the brave people. It’s a common construction with a definite article (the) plus some adjective that can describe a person (or a group of people), where the Adjective means ‘people who are Adjective‘ — the homeless, the depraved, the tall, the college-educated.

In this construction, the meaning is generic, group, and plural; the tall can’t mean ‘the tall person’, the way it can in many languages†, and *a tall doesn’t mean anything at all, since the idiom requires a definite article.

†For instance, Latin. The Latin grammarians who coined the original Parts of Speech did not, in fact, notice adjectives. They considered adjectives to be nouns without intrinsic gender, so they could take their gender from a noun they modified. Other than that, they behaved like nouns and took all the same endings, and an adjective that didn’t modify a noun was taken to be a noun itself — longum ‘long [neut sg nom]’ alone could mean ‘a long thing’, which the Romans correctly identified as a noun phrase, though only by treating longus, -a, -um as a noun. This is why technical terms like noun have to be related to theories that use them.