This page gathers the 1,052 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Grammar”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 5 of 11: from “future perfect” to “intensive pronoun”.
- future perfect noun A tense that expresses action completed at some time in the future; in English it is formed by use of will have (or shall have) and a past…
- future perfect continuous noun A tense used to express an ongoing action completed after some time in the future; in English formed by use of will have been (or shall…
- future tense noun The tense or time form of a verb used to refer to an event or occurrence that has not yet happened or is expected to happen in the future.
- futuristic adj In or relating to the future tense.
- futurize verb To bring into the future tense.
- g noun Abbreviation of genitive case.
- gender noun A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like…
- gender-neutral adj In particular, in languages where words are assigned to one grammatical gender or another: lacking such an assignment.
- generic noun A term that specifies neither male nor female.
- generic masculine noun The practice of using the masculine grammatical gender when referring to groups or anonymous people.
- genitival adj Having genitive form; pertaining to, expressing, or derived from, the genitive case.
- genitive adj Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing…
- genitive absolute noun in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
- genitive case noun The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the…
- gentile noun A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.
- gerund noun A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions…
- gerund-participle noun The form of an English verb that ends in -ing and can function as a noun, an adjective, or a progressive verb.
- gnomic adj Expressing general truths or aphorisms.
- goal noun A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb.
- govern verb To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
- governed state noun In the Akkadian language, the basic form of a noun or pronoun, including the suffix for the case, in which it is linked to a verb…
- government noun The relationship between a word and its dependents.
- governor noun A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- grammatical aspect noun The aspect of a verb phrase (verb group) or other predicate – its temporal structure or relationship to the time of use – marked through…
- grammatical case noun A mode of inflection of a word dependent on its use, especially on its syntactic function in a phrase.
- grammatical gender noun The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.
- grammatical person noun A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and other people; implemented in most languages by a variety…
- Gruppenflexion noun The practice, for example in Tibetan and Tocharian, of inflecting noun phrases with case by only inflecting the last word of the noun…
- habitual noun A construction representing something done habitually.
- habitual aspect noun A feature of the verb which specifies an action as occurring habitually, usually, ordinarily, or customarily
- habituative noun verb form expressing habitual action or condition
- headword noun The head of a phrase.
- heteroclite adj Irregularly declined or inflected.
- heterological adj Of a word, not describing itself.
- heterology noun The property of a word or phrase that does not describe itself.
- high point noun · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used for a medium pause like a semicolon ; the Ancient Greek punctuation mark used for the end of a…
- historic adj Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
- historical adj One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- historical present noun The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written.
- hodiernal tense noun Referring to events of today, in an absolute tense, or of the day under consideration, in a relative tense.
- homological adj Of an adjective, describing itself.
- hortative noun A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
- humiliative adj Serving to lower one's own or another's status.
- hyperbaton noun An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
- hypocorrect adj Not completely correct; nonstandard.
- hypothesis noun The antecedent of a conditional statement.
- ideophone noun A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound…
- illative noun A word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore).
- immediative adj Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses a secondary action which occurs immediately before the primary action of a…
- imperative noun The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare…
- imperative mood noun The grammatical mood generally expressing a command, though also used to express a request or permission.
- imperfect noun A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
- imperfect tense noun A tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action.
- imperfective aspect noun A feature of a verb which denotes that its action or condition does not have a fixed temporal boundary, but is habitual, unfinished…
- impersonal noun An impersonal word or construct.
- impersonal passive noun A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch sentence Er wordt gefloten ("[Someone] whistled"). Also…
- imprecative noun A grammatical mood, found in some languages, used for curses (in the sense of wishing harm) and marked by a different set of affixes than…
- in prep Characterized by.
- inalienable adj Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for…
- inanimate adj Not animate.
- inceptive noun An inceptive construction.
- incessive adj Synonym of inessive.
- inchoative noun An inchoative construction.
- incipient noun A verb tense of the Hebrew language.
- incomplete sentence noun A group of words that appear to convey only part of a complete thought, lacking some component which is grammatically necessary to complete…
- incorporative adj Polysynthetic.
- increment noun A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.
- indeclinable noun A word that is not grammatically inflected.
- indefinite noun A word or phrase that designates an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
- indefinite article noun A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun.
- independent genitive noun A grammatical construction in which a noun or pronoun in the genitive or possessive case is used independently of the noun which it…
- indeterminate state noun A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does not bear a determiner – where it would use the determinate state –, nor…
- indeterminate verb noun Synonym of abstract verb.
- indicative noun The indicative mood.
- indicative conditional noun A type of conditional statement in natural language that expresses a relationship between two propositions, and used to convey the…
- indirect object noun A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.
- indirective adj Relating to a construct in some languages that indicates whether there is evidence for a given statement, without specifying the source of…
- indiscriminative adj Specifying any one from among several equivalent possibilities.
- individualizer noun A construction that conveys the idea of an individual thing.
- inessive adj Of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.
- inessive case noun A noun case used to indicate location inside something. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions "in" or "inside".…
- infect adj Representing an action not yet completed.
- infinite adj Not limited by person or number.
- infinitive noun The infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).
- infixation noun The state or quality of being infixed.
- inflect verb To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
- inflected adj Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).
- inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different…
- inflectional adj Of or pertaining to inflection.
- inflectional morphology noun The study of the various processes, including vowel change and affixation, that distinguish word formations in certain grammatical…
- inflectional phrase noun A functional phrase that contains inflectional properties, such as tense and agreement, and whereby the sentence can be treated consisting…
- inflective adj Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection.
- inflexive adj inflective; inflectional
- ingressive adj Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
- inhabitative noun demonym (name for inhabitant of a place)
- injunctive noun A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually resembling an augmentless aorist or imperfect.
- instructive case noun noun case used to indicate means. It answers the question "how?", and in English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase by…
- instrumental noun The instrumental case.
- instrumental case noun A noun case used to express means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective. Languages that use the…
- intensive pronoun noun To emphasize a preceding noun or another pronoun, as an adverbial adjunct.