function word

Betekenis (Engels)

A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.

Synoniemen

closed-class word

preposition

conjunctive word

functor

functional word

structure word

copulative element

Vertalingen

mot-outil

كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة

Funktionswort

كَلِمَة من صِنْف مُغْلَق

foncteur

mot structural

parola funzionale