• What are concrete nouns?
• Examples of concrete nouns
• Sentences with concrete nouns
• Concrete and abstract nouns
• Other types of nouns

We explain what the concrete nouns, examples and sentences that use them are. Also, what are abstract nouns.

Concrete nouns designate material realities.

What are concrete nouns?

The nouns are words that designate the objects or actions of the universe real or imaginary, which is why they are often referred to as "names." However, there may be different types of nouns, depending on the particular characteristics of what they name.

Thus, concrete nouns are those whose referent can be perceived through the senses, that is, belonging to the order of tangible, material, concrete things. In this they differ from abstract nouns, whose referents are precisely imaginary or mental.

Concrete nouns are enormously abundant in all the languages ​​of the world, since they designate specific referents of our tangible experience of the reality, such as names of objects, of persons, of events or situations that can be experienced, real.

Examples of concrete nouns

Some examples of concrete nouns are:

• Cloud
• Cat
• Iron
• Cement
• Computer
• Billboard
• Letter
• Paper
• Fire
• church
• I usually
• Edifice
• Tree
• Chimpanzee
• Fruit
• Seeds
• Sows
• Country
• Rain
• Sky
• Hoe
• Farmer
• Woman
• Little boy
• Family
• Bottle
• Telephone
• Notebook
• Desert
• Mountain
• Volcano
• River
• Ocean
• Fish
• Earthquake
• Planet
• Star
• Universe
• satelite
• Meteorite

Sentences with concrete nouns

Similarly, some sentences that use concrete nouns can be:

• Planets, stars, and clouds are my favorite objects in the sky.
• The bottle was filled with nut and artichoke liqueur.
• Neither men nor women really know what love is about.
• The jaguar's sharp fangs have nothing to envy those of the tiger.
• Using a phone or computer food can be ordered at home.

Concrete and abstract nouns

Unlike concrete nouns that, as we have seen, are perceptible through our senses, abstract nouns refer to objects or actions belonging to the world of ideas or the imaginary.

What concrete nouns designate has an independent, real existence in the world of everyday life. On the contrary, what abstract nouns refer to is something only possible through a process of abstraction.

Examples of abstract nouns are: Liberty, pride, calculation, beauty, truth, Justice, goodness, eternity, love.

Other types of nouns

Nouns can also be classified as individual or collective.

In addition to concrete nouns (and abstract ones, which we also saw), we can talk about other types of noun, such as:

• Individual nouns. Those that designate a singular object or an individual, and not a group or a set from them. For example: currency, banknote.
• Collective nouns. On the contrary, they are those that designate collectivities or sets of objects, considered globally, and that cannot be individualized. For example: money, cash.