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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#m1)

2) Nenets is also their language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#x1)
- Nenets families live in tents called chums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#x2)
- The Nenets travel hundreds of kilometres each year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#x3)
- Nenets children wear warm reindeer-skin coats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#x4)
- The Nenets language is related to Finnish and Hungarian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#x5)
- Gas drilling has changed the Nenets' land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nenets» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nenets/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.