"word order" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: word orders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} word order (countable and uncountable, plural word orders)
  1. The ordering of the syntactic constituents of a language. Wikipedia link: word order Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar Related terms: syntax Translations (order of syntactic constituents): نَظَام كَلَم (naẓām kalam) [masculine] (Arabic), словоред (slovored) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 語序 (Chinese Mandarin), 语序 (yǔxù) (Chinese Mandarin), 詞序 (Chinese Mandarin), 词序 (cíxù) (Chinese Mandarin), slovosled [masculine] (Czech), slovní pořádek [masculine] (Czech), ordstilling [common-gender] (Danish), woordvolgorde [feminine] (Dutch), vortordo (Esperanto), sanajärjestys (Finnish), ordre des mots [masculine] (French), Wortfolge [feminine] (German), Wortstellung [feminine] (German), szórend (Hungarian), orðaröð [feminine] (Icelandic), urutan kata (Indonesian), 語順 (gojun) (alt: ごじゅん) (Japanese), 어순 (eosun) (Korean), збороред (zborored) [masculine] (Macedonian), urutan kata (Malay), үгсийн дараалал (ügsiin daraalal) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠦᠭᠡᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠳᠠᠷᠠᠭᠠᠯᠠᠯ (üges-ün daraɣalal) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), ordre des mots [masculine] (Norman), ordstilling (Norwegian), szyk wyrazów w zdaniu (Polish), kolejność słów [feminine] (Polish), szyk zdania [masculine] (Polish), ordem das palavras [feminine] (Portuguese), поря́док слов (porjádok slov) [masculine] (Russian), slovosled [masculine] (Slovak), orden de las palabras [masculine] (Spanish), ordföljd [common-gender] (Swedish), поря́док слів (porjádok sliv) [masculine] (Ukrainian), trefn eiriol [feminine] (Welsh)

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