non-particular

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

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"So, if you say kókkit owáí, "Give me egg(s)", in which "eggs" has the non-particular suffix, you may get one or more eggs; perhaps a more accurate translation would be "Give me at least one egg". Here are other examples of nouns with the non-particular suffix -i; notice that both animate and inanimate gender nouns take this suffix: [...]"

From non- + particular, coined by American linguist Donald G Frantz.

non-referring

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