nenets

«nenets» in Mova's school dictionary: a people of the Arctic in northern Russia who… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the Nenets, a Nenets); adjective (Nenets)

meaning for a pupil

1) The Nenets are a people of the Arctic in northern Russia who traditionally herd reindeer. tree →

2) Nenets is also their language. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in geography lessons about the Arctic, tundra and nomadic peoples who move with their reindeer.

examples

• The Nenets herd reindeer across the tundra. tree →
• Nenets families live in tents called chums. tree →
• The Nenets travel hundreds of kilometres each year. tree →
• Nenets children wear warm reindeer-skin coats. tree →
• The Nenets language is related to Finnish and Hungarian. tree →
• Gas drilling has changed the Nenets' land. tree →

note

Capital N. «Nenets» is both singular and plural. Their language is distantly related to Finnish and Hungarian.

In the corpora

• Yet the Arctic was never empty: Inuit, Sámi, Nenets and other peoples have lived there for thousands of years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nenets» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.