why does the word "player" isn't an adjective?

Question

I can't understand why if I look up for player in the dictionary, it show me that is a noun when for example when you say "Kobe Bryant is a player" you are describing him.

Answer 1

According to dictionary.com, an adjective is:-

ad·jec·tive Audio pronunciation of "adjective" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (jk-tv)
n. Abbr. a. or adj.

1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

Coming back to your sentence, ""Kobe Bryant is a player" - player here is a noun but if you add "good" before "player" then the adjective is "good"... or 'bad" if he's a bad player.

Answer 2

Kobe Bryant is a player - the word player is a noun. Kind of like if you said he was a jerk. Jerk is a noun. The article "a" denotes it is a noun. If you said Kobe Bryant is player, it doesn't sound right because you are now equating player with yellow or funny which ARE adjectives.

Answer 3

An adjective modifies a noun. Player is a noun. In the sentence, it does not modify Kobe as much as it labels him. In the sentence, it is what is known as a "bare object". You could invert the sentence and say "A player is Kobe Bryant" and not destroy the meaning of the sentence, which is part of the definition of bare object. In this inverted sentence, you wouldn't insist that Kobe Bryant is an adjective because it describes player.

Answer 4

In your example, "Kobe Bryant is a player", PLAYER is being used as a noun. You put "a" in front of it, so it's a noun. An adjective wouldn't have "a" in front of it. For example, "Kobe Bryant is tall." TALL is an adjective. You would NOT say, "Kobe Bryant is a tall."

Answer 5

Read your question again, you are murdering the Queen's english!!

Why does the word "player" **isn't** (AACCKK!!-- this should read "not appear as adjective?")

Please, learn to write and speak grammatically. Regardless of who you are, where you go, what you do, or anything else going on in your life, being articulate will help you, and help anyone you are trying to help.

The answer to your question was in the dictionary.

Player is, and will always be, a NOUN!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Player is a noun. It's a person. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

Answer 8

a noun is a person place thing or idea...

Kobe Bryant (subject) is (veb) a (artical) player (object)

Player is someoen who plays....

Answer 9

It is clear that it should be a noun used there. Are you English native speaker?

Answer 10

because the way peeps use 'player' now is ebonics, and ebonics isnt a recognized language by civilized society, only wiggers