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 9 of 11: from “puttee” to “spelling reform”.
- puttee noun Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
- quadral noun A grammatical number referring to four (or more) things.
- quadrigrade adj Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese, so called due to their use of four vowels (grades…
- qualifier noun A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that…
- quantifier noun A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.
- quintal adj Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.
- quirky subject noun A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic).
- quotative noun A grammatical device to mark quoted speech, such as be like in "he was like, 'who are you?'".
- R-expression noun A referential expression, such as "John" or "the dog": one that, unlike pronouns and anaphora, independently refers to, i.e., picks out, an…
- rafsi noun An abbreviated form of a gismu (Lojban root word), used as an affix to make lujvo (Lojban compound words).
- raised dot noun Synonym of high point: · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used in place of a semicolon in English).
- raised point noun · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used in place of a semicolon in English).
- real noun One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
- realis noun A category of grammatical moods, the most common of which is the indicative mood, that indicate that something actually is, or is not, the…
- realis mood noun A category of grammatical moods, the most common of which is the indicative mood, that indicate that something actually is, or is not, the…
- reciprocal noun A construction expressing mutual action.
- reciprocity noun A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect…
- reclamatory adj Asking for repetition (and sometimes expressing doubt or confusion).
- redditive adj Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply.
- reduced adj Of a relative clause: not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or relativizer such as who, which, or that.
- reduplicative noun A word obtained by the process of reduplication.
- refer verb To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- reflective adj Reciprocal.
- reflexion noun An act or instance of referring back to the subject of a sentence, or of having an object equal to the subject.
- reflexive adj Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.
- reflexive possessive noun A grammatical construction in which the object of a clause is stated to be in the possession of the subject.
- reflexive pronoun noun In English: a personal pronoun, having a form of "-self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
- regimen noun Object.
- regular adj Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- regular verb noun A verb which conjugates regularly. In English, a verb which uses an -ed suffix to form its past participle.
- reiterative noun A word signifying repeated action.
- relational adjective noun A classifying adjective; an adjective that defines a relation and not a quality, commonly found in (but not exclusive to) languages that do…
- relative adj Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
- relative clause noun A subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes a whole statement; in English, it may be…
- relative pronoun noun A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns…
- relative superlative noun the superlative (a degree of comparison) when it is used to express the highest degree of something in relation to something else
- relative tense noun A grammatical expression of time reference relative to a different point in time, at the moment being considered in the context.
- relativize verb To make relative.
- relevance conditional noun A subordinate clause, usually introduced by if, that asserts the relevance of the clause to the main clause of the sentence, but not that…
- renarrative adj Inferential; pertaining to the inferential mood.
- reportative adj Of or relating to such a construct.
- reported speech noun A grammatical construction used to represent another person's words, thoughts, or statements indirectly rather than by quoting them…
- reportive noun Synonym of reportative.
- restrictive noun A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.
- restrictive clause noun A dependent clause that provides essential information to identify or specify the noun it modifies, limiting its reference to a particular…
- restrictive relative clause noun A relative clause that provides information essential to describing or identifying the person or thing that is meant.
- result clause noun A subordinate clause that indicates the consequence or outcome of the action described in the main clause.
- resultative adj Indicating the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the action expressed by a verb, as with "blue" in "Mary painted the fence…
- resumptive noun A resumptive pronoun.
- retractive noun A verb that serves to cancel or retract a previously established obligation.
- rhematic adj Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb.
- role noun The function of a word in a phrase.
- run-on sentence noun A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as…
- Sanskritization noun The modification of a word's structure to render its appearance to that of a Sanskrit word.
- satellite noun A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples…
- saturative adj That is brought to full satisfaction
- second conditional noun A structure used to convey about improbable or impossible events in the present or future, containing an if clause (with a verb in the…
- second imperative noun The future imperative mood (second- and third-person forms possible); indicating a command that is to be carried out both now and in future.
- second person noun The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and…
- second-person dual noun The pronoun associated with this form.
- second-person plural noun The form of a verb used with the pronouns you (plural), y'all, you guys, etc., or their equivalents in other languages.
- second-person singular noun The form of a verb used with the pronouns thou and you (singular), or their equivalents in other languages.
- secondary tense noun In Latin, the perfect, imperfect or pluperfect tense.
- selbri noun A word acting like a predicate, which is immediately preceded by one sumti (“argument”), x_1, and usually followed by one or more sumti…
- self-standing adj Lacking affixes; being a stem.
- semblative noun A grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another.
- semelfactive adj That denotes a momentary or punctiliar action.
- semelfactive aspect noun A subclass of perfective verbs that denotes a momentary or punctiliar action (e.g., to sneeze, to blink).
- semiauxiliary adj Of a verb: functioning rather like an auxiliary verb, but not considered to be a full member of that class.
- semimodal adj Having only some of the characteristics of the major modal verbs.
- sentence noun A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing…
- sentence element noun In certain approaches to grammar, a part of the sentence, classified as one of subject, predicate, object, predicative and adverbial.
- sentence fragment noun An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical…
- sequential adj Expressing succession of events.
- serial adj Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that is habitual and ongoing.
- seriative adj Of or relating to the verb subaspect that denotes one after another, an interconnected series of successive separate and distinct actions.
- servile noun An element which forms no part of the original root.
- seṭ adj of a root, having a final i sound in certain forms, originating from a final laryngeal in Proto-Indo-European
- set phrase noun An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic.
- short form noun Particularly in Slavic languages, a shortened form of the adjective, used predicatively.
- sigmate verb To modify (a Greek word) by adding a sigma, or by changing another letter to sigma.
- similative noun A grammatical case expressing similarity; the similative case.
- similative case noun A noun case used to indicate likeness, resemblance, or similarity. In English, this is usually expressed by the phrase is similar to or is…
- simple future adj Describing the tense which describes a future action. In English this uses forms of will, shall or be going to.
- simple past noun A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as…
- simple tense noun In English, the tense of a verb which is used specifically in the simple aspect--that is, the verb alone does not indicate whether the…
- simplex noun In full simplex sentence: in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence.
- simulative noun A grammatical case expressing similarity.
- singular noun A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
- singulare tantum noun A noun (in any specific sense) that has no plural form and is only used with singular verbs. Frequently for mass nouns.
- singulative adj Of or pertaining to a grammatical form or construction that expresses the individuation of a single referent from a mass noun.
- situative adj Expressing the location of things in comparison with one another, e.g. the word "to" in the phrase face to face.
- small clause noun A minimal predicate structure that possesses arguments and predicates but no tense: small clauses usually occur within the context of full…
- sociative adj Being or relating to the sociative case.
- solecism noun An error in the use of language.
- solid compound noun Synonym of closed compound.
- solidification noun The tendency to transform an open compound into a closed compound (solid compound).
- solidify verb To transform an open compound into a closed compound (solid compound).
- speech noun An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- spelling reform noun A deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated, change to spelling rules; typically to make the spelling more transparent (see…