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- I caught the dog that bit you. (relative clause 'that bit you' modifies the noun 'dog')
- She came to visit, which was nice. (relative clause 'which was nice' gives information about the statement 'She came to visit')
- An old clock I bought turned out to be very valuable. (relative pronoun omitted)
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relative clause (plural relative clauses)
- (grammar) A subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes whole statement; in English, may be introduced by a relative pronoun (sometimes optional) such as that, which or who.
- Hypernyms: subordinate clause < clause
- Hyponyms: integrated relative clause, restrictive relative clause, defining relative clause; supplementary relative clause, non-restrictive relative clause, non-defining relative clause, integrated relative clause, supplementary relative clause
- Near-synonyms: (dated, deprecated) adjective clause, adjectival clause, attributive clause
type of subordinate clause
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 關係字句 / 关系字句 (guānxì zìjù), 關係從句 / 关系从句 (guānxì cóngjù), 定語從句 / 定语从句 (dìngyǔ cóngjù)
- Dutch: bijvoeglijke bijzin m, relatieve bijzin m, betrekkelijke bijzin m
- Finnish: relatiivilause
- French: proposition relative (fr) f, relative (fr) f, subordonnée relative f
- German: Relativsatz (de) m
- Hungarian: vonatkozó mellékmondat, jelzői mellékmondat
- Icelandic: tilvísunarsetning f
- Italian: proposizione relativa f
- Japanese: 関係詞節 (かんけいしせつ, kankeishi-setsu), 関係節 (ja) (かんけいせつ, kankei-setsu), 連体修飾節 (れんたいしゅうしょくせつ, rentai-shūshoku-setsu) (adnominal clause)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тодотгол гишүүн өгүүлбэр (todotgol gišüün ögüülber)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠳᠣᠳᠬᠠᠯ
ᠭᠡᠰᠢᠭᠦᠨ
ᠥᠭᠦᠯᠡᠪᠦᠷᠢ (tododqal gesigün ögülebüri)
- Polish: zdanie względne n
- Portuguese: oração subordinada adjetiva f, oração relativa f
- Russian: относи́тельное прида́точное предложе́ние n (otnosítelʹnoje pridátočnoje predložénije)
- Spanish: oración de relativo f, cláusula relativa f
- Thai: คุณานุประโยค (th) (kú-naa-nú-bprà-yòok)
- Welsh: cymal perthynol m
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