nasal
part of speech
adjective (nasal)
meaning for a pupil
1) Nasal means to do with the nose. tree →
2) A nasal voice or sound comes partly through the nose, like when you have a cold. tree →
3) In phonics and grammar, nasal sounds are m, n and ng. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, nasal passages warm and clean the air you breathe. In health, nasal spray helps a blocked nose. In French lessons, French has nasal vowels (as in «bon», «vin»).
examples
- He had a nasal voice because of his cold. tree →
- Use the nasal spray twice a day. tree →
- M and n are nasal sounds. tree →
- Hairs in the nasal passages catch dust. tree →
- The French word «bon» has a nasal sound. tree →
- She had a nasal infection. tree →
note
Adjective only. Related noun: nose.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «nasal» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.