# determiner
## English
### Etymology

From determine +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɚ/

### Noun

determiner (plural determiners)
* Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
** A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.
    Near-synonym: definer
    In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.
*** 1901, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log:The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]
** Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.
    Near-synonyms: decider, decisor, disposer, definer, arbiter, arbitrator, decisionmaker
    He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]
    Who is the determiner? [administratively or theologically]
    The software is the determiner if no input is given before the prompt times out.
* (grammar)
** A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
    Hypernym: function word
    Hyponyms: article (i.e., a, an, the); demonstrative determiner (e.g., this, that, these, those); possessive determiner; cardinal number (e.g., 3, three, 51, fifty-one); quantifier (e.g., most, any, much, each); predeterminer, central determiner, postdeterminer
    Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)
    Definite articles and indefinite articles are types of determiners.
** A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
    Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)
    In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:determiner.

#### Derived terms

* (grammar): determiner phrase, predeterminer, postdeterminer, null determiner, determinerhood, determinerless

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### See also

* Category:English determiners
* Category:Determiners by language
* article
* demonstrative

### References

* “determiner”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* determiner in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

### Further reading

* What Is a Determiner? scribbr.com

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin dēterminō.

### Verb

determiner
* to determine

#### Conjugation

* Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

## Latin
### Verb

dēterminer
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dēterminō