Complement of the name

The complement of the name is a Complément subordinated to a name. In French, it is introduced by a preposition with, of, by, for, in, without, with,… and indicates the possession, the origin or the matter in popular language.

Examples:

  • the girl of the king.
  • the town of my youth.
  • the Chinese book (implied in Chinese language).
  • the spoon with coffee.
  • the bonnet for child.
  • the crank lamp-torch.
  • the subway without driver.
  • the fault with Mathieu (popular language, the formulation in literary French being “the fault of Mathieu”).
To find the complement of the name, one puts the question of which? or of what? after the name. Examples:

The car of my mother is beautiful.

Question: the car of which?

Answer: of my mother ( mother is the complement of the name car )

In French

In French, the complement of the name agrees, neither in kind, nor of number, with the name.

Certain complements according to a name and introduced by of are not complements of the name, but of the Apposition S or many circumstantial complements:

  • the town of Marseilles (affixing city = Marseilles).
  • streets of Paris (adverbial phrase of place).
  • the Card deck (circumstantial complement of means).

Other languages

In the languages with variation, the complement of the name is returned by the Génitif.

In English, the “ noun adjunct ” (addition of name) also called “ attributive nouns ” (attributive names) fulfilled this role

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