Nominalization & Formal Register

Turning a verb into a noun compresses a clause into a phrase

Formal Hindi writing makes a similar stylistic choice, favoring compact noun phrases over full verb-centered clauses in official or academic contexts. Formal English pushes this further: verbs get converted into nominalized nouns (decide → decision, discover → discovery, argue → argument) and paired with a light verb (make a decision instead of just decide), often combined with the passive voice you already know. Hindi does something structurally similar with its own nominalizing suffixes — tatsama nouns like निर्णय, or abstract-noun suffixes such as -ता and -आई (जैसे संभावना, भलाई) — paired with light verbs like करना, लेना, or होना. Recognizing the verb hiding inside a nominalized noun, in either language, makes dense formal writing much easier to unpack back into its simpler, spoken equivalent.