grammatical category
English Thesaurus
1. (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties (noun.communication)
hypernym | : | category, class, family, |
definition | : | a collection of things sharing a common attribute (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | case, grammatical case, |
definition | : | nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | form class, part of speech, word class, |
definition | : | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | number, |
definition | : | the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | person, |
definition | : | a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | gender, grammatical gender, |
definition | : | a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | tense, |
definition | : | a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time (noun.communication) |
hyponym | : | participant role, semantic role, |
definition | : | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause (noun.communication) |
domain category | : | grammar, |
definition | : | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) (noun.cognition) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore grammatical category in ArtiKata.com >