noun🔗Share表语 (grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival."The analysis of "He is a doctor" showed that "a doctor" functions as the predicative, renaming the subject "he." "对“他是个医生”的分析表明，“医生”这个词作为表语，重新指代了主语“他”。grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share表语，谓语补足语. (grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being."In Irish, "Tá" is a common predicative used to express "is" or "are" before nouns and adjectives, indicating a state of being. "在爱尔兰语中，“Tá”是一个常用的表语，用于在名词和形容词前表达“是”的意思，表示一种存在状态。grammarlinguisticslanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share作表语的，表语的。 (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun while in a predicate phrase, which predicate phrase is other than the noun phrase and occurs after a verb, as a predicate; contrasted with attributive."In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive."在句子“这房子很大”中，“大”是作表语的，而在“这是一栋大房子”中，则是作定语的。grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
