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Is years an adjective

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

No, the word year is a noun. When the noun year is used to describe another noun (year end, year one, etc.), a 'noun as adjective' is called an attributive noun.



When an attributive noun-noun combination becomes widely used, it becomes a compound noun such as yearbook.

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