"null morpheme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: null morphemes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} null morpheme (plural null morphemes)
  1. (linguistics) A morpheme that has no phonetic form. It is represented as the empty set symbol ∅. Wikipedia link: null morpheme Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: zero morpheme Translations (a morpheme that has no phonetic form): morfema zero [masculine] (Catalan), nollamorfeemi (Finnish), morphème zéro [masculine] (French), morphème nul [masculine] (French), zéró morféma (Hungarian), zerowy morfem [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-null_morpheme-en-noun-nhxVRCmt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
          "word": "zéró morféma"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morfema zero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
      "word": "nollamorfeemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "morphème nul"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
      "word": "zéró morféma"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a morpheme that has no phonetic form",
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