Need-not
Need-not
"Need-not" is a noun and my question is: Is need a verb or a noun in that compound noun?
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I've never seen this construction, so I'm curious why you are asking. Forget-me-not = a flower (noun) Generally, if it comes from a verb, we use a gerund/participle for compound nouns: reading room, sitting room, dining table, shopping bag, thinking cap, run(ning) time. BUT: runtime, stoplight, turnover (nouns) ?
- I've never seen this construction, so I'm curious why you are asking.
- Forget-me-not = a flower (noun) Generally, if it comes from a verb, we use a gerund/participle for compound nouns: reading room, sitting room, dining table, shopping bag, thinking cap, run(ning) time.
- BUT: runtime, stoplight, turnover (nouns) ?
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For what reason do you need to know?I've never seen this construction, so I'm curious why you are asking.
? Forget-me-not = a flower (noun)
Generally, if it comes from a verb, we use a gerund/participle for compound nouns:
reading room, sitting room, dining table, shopping bag, thinking cap, run(ning) time.
BUT: runtime, stoplight, turnover (nouns)
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0Whatnot - is a pronoun.
I have heard that used before (US).
0tkacka15"Need-not" is a noun
I have never seen, heard or used that expression. The only hyphenated similar construction is "need-to-know."
I checked the American Corpus, 520 million citations, and got nothing. There were no hits in the British Corpus either. Then the Web corpus had 13 hits, but they were all of this sort, or punctuation errors.
0tkacka15"Need-not" is a noun and my question is: Is need a verb or a noun in that compound noun?
verb (Just as 'know' is a verb in the noun 'know-it-all'.)
(Never heard it, however.)
CJ
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