"function word" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: function words [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} function word (plural function words)
  1. (linguistics) 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. Wikipedia link: function word Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: functor, grammatical word Translations (function word): كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة (kalima waẓīfiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), functiewoord [neuter] (Dutch), funktiosana (Finnish), kieliopillinen sana (Finnish), mot-outil [masculine] (French), mot grammatical [masculine] (French), Funktionswort [neuter] (German), Synsemantikum [neuter] (German), Synsemantikon [neuter] (German), parola vuota [feminine] (Italian), 機能語 (kinōgo) (Japanese), 문법형태소 (munbeophyeongtaeso) (Korean), funktor [masculine] (Polish), palavra gramatical [feminine] (Portuguese), служебное сло́во (služebnoje slóvo) [neuter] (Russian), palabra funcional [feminine] (Spanish), palabra gramatical [feminine] (Spanish), palabra cenemática [feminine] (Spanish), formord [neuter] (Swedish), funktionsord [neuter] (Swedish), gair ffwythiannol [masculine] (Welsh)

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