Is the word young an adjective

The word ‘young’ can be used as either an adjective or as a noun. As an adjective, the word ‘young’ refers to something living that has only been in…

Adjectives are words that help describe nouns. Because “the” can describe whether a noun is a specific object or not, “the” is also considered an adjective.

How do you know the adjective of a word?

Adjectives are usually placed before the nouns they describe, as in the examples, tall man and easy assignment, above. Adjectives may also follow the noun they describe. Like nouns, adjectives are often recognizable by their suffixes. Endings such as -ous -ful -ish -able usually designate adjectives.

What is the verb of young?

young. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger. (geology) To exhibit younging.

What is the antonym for Young?

young(adjective) Antonyms: old, grown, mature. Synonyms: junior, youthful, underdeveloped, juvenile, undeveloped, immature.

What’s another word for youthful?

What is another word for youthful?

What is a adjective for kids?

Adjectives are words that are used to help describe or give description to people, places, and things. These descriptive words can help give information about size, shape, age, color, origin, material, purpose, feelings, condition, and personality, or texture.

What is an adjective for Year 2?

An adjective is a word that describes a noun (the name of a thing or a place). Adjectives can come before or after a noun. • Try putting adjectives in different places in your sentences to make your writing more interesting.

What is a noun for Year 1?

A noun is a naming word for things, animals, people, places and feelings.

How do you teach nouns to Year 1?

5 Fun Activities for Teaching Nouns in the Primary Grades

1. Activity #1: Have students identify examples of nouns in real sentences.
2. Activity #2: Have students sort common nouns into the categories of people, places, and things.
3. Activity #3: Have students do a “noun hunt” in the books they’re reading.

How do you explain a proper noun to a child?

Kids Definition of proper noun : a noun that names a particular person, place, or thing “Tom,” “Chicago,” and “Friday” are proper nouns.

Why are children different from other nouns?

If you have a plural noun that does not end with -s, add -‘s to the ending — a perfect example is “children.” Children’s is correct and childrens’ is wrong because “children” is plural and an irregular noun that requires the addition of -‘s to make it possessive.

What type of word should be capitalized?

In general, you should capitalize the first word, all nouns, all verbs (even short ones, like is), all adjectives, and all proper nouns. That means you should lowercase articles, conjunctions, and prepositions—however, some style guides say to capitalize conjunctions and prepositions that are longer than five letters.

What type of word is truthfully?

adjective. telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.

Is the word it capitalized in a title?

Words such as one, it, its, it’s, him, and own should all be capitalized no matter where they appear in a title.

Should all words in a heading be capitalized?

Just follow these simple rules. Capitalize the first word of the title or heading. Capitalize the last word of the title or heading. All other words are capitalized unless they are conjunctions (and, or, but, nor, yet, so, for), articles (a, an, the), or prepositions (in, to, of, at, by, up, for, off, on).

молодой, юный, младший, молодо, молодежь, детеныш

прилагательное ↓

существительное ↓

Словосочетания

a robin feeding her young — малиновка, которая кормит птенцов  
he is young for his age — он молодо выглядит  
a book for young people — книга для молодёжи  
a very forward young woman — очень нахальная девушка  
a hot young guitar player — страстный молодой гитарист  
young fellow — молодой человек  
young idea — свежая идея  
young lad — молодой парень  
likely young woman — привлекательная молодая женщина  
love’s young dream — пылкая и безрассудная любовь  
robust young man — здоровый крепкий юноша  
young / little shaver — юнец, мальчишка  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

Формы слова

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): younger
прев. степ. (superlative): youngest

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: yŭng, IPA^(key): /jʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Adjective[edit]

young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)

1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
   • 1809 October 26, William Wordsworth, «The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement», Friend, No. 11, ll. 4–5:

     Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
     But to be young was very heaven!

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     «What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.»

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients:

     I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal’lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children’s brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

   a lamb is a young sheep;  these picture books are for young readers

2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

   the age of space travel is still young;   a young business

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,^[1]

     […] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]

3. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
   • 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.’s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:

     And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,

     Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.

   How young is your dog?   Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.

4. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
   • 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:

     The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.

5. (of a decade of life) Early.
   • 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,^[2]

     […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.

   • 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1,

     Ephraim would be in his young thirties.

   • 2008, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket,” The Guardian, 20 January, 2008,^[3]

     […] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.

6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

   My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.

7. Of or belonging to the early part of life.

   The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.

8. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

Synonyms[edit]

• (born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
• (having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
• (of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
• (inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature

Antonyms[edit]

• (born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
• (having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
• (of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
• (inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran

Derived terms[edit]

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• youth

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

young (plural young)

1. (often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
   • 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:

     There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]

   The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.

   The lion’s young are curious about the world around them.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)

1. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.

   • 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:

     The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).

2. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.

   • 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports‎^[4], page 74:

     Medicare data was «younged» by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.

3. (geology) To exhibit younging.

   • 1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI:

     Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.

   • 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science‎^[5], volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671-1677:

     The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.

Anagrams[edit]

• Guyon

Middle English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

young

1. Alternative form of yong

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