Bragging is a common, inanimate noun of the middle gender. In this article we will talk about the meaning of this word, talk about its declension, choose at least one, or better, several synonyms. Let's start in order.
Bragging is ...
What comes to mind first when we see or mentally pronounce the noun "bragging"? The fact that it is somehow connected with the words “praise”, “praise”, “praise”, “praised”. To find confirmation or refutation of this hypothesis, let's look into the explanatory dictionary.
Bragging is almost the same as boasting, but boasting is exaggerated, overly self-confident and immodest.
Declination
Like all declined nouns of the middle gender, "bragging" is inclined according to the second type.
| Case | What? | Examples |
| Nominative | What? | Bragging and narcissism do not characterize a person very well. |
| Genitive | What? | Petrusha answered so, without thinking, from the stupid childish bragging. |
| Dative | Why? | Arthur Ernestovich Kravchenko was indulgent towards the boy’s bragging, not even thinking to be angry. |
| Accusative | What? | The self-confident words of the elderly fisherman Alibek were more like bragging. |
| Instrumental case | Than? | No one took Leonid Kirillovich’s words seriously and took them for ordinary indiscreet bragging. |
| Prepositional | About what? | How would you not regret the senseless bragging. |
The plural forms: "bragging", "bragging", "bragging", "bragging", "bragging", "bragging" - theoretically exist, but in practice they are practically not used in everyday colloquial speech.
Bragging: synonyms
One of the functions of synonyms is that they help to accurately name an object, its sign, action.
Bragging is:
- boasting;
- boasting;
- bravado;
- self-indulgence;
- bragging.