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PRONUNCIATION OF WORD CLASS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORD CLASS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Word class is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WORD CLASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Part of speech

In grammar, a part of speech is a linguistic category of words, which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb, among others. There are open word classes, which constantly acquire new members, and closed word classes, which acquire new members infrequently if at all. Almost all languages have the lexical categories noun and verb, but beyond these there are significant variations in different languages. For example, Japanese has as many as three classes of adjectives where English has one; Chinese, Korean and Japanese have nominal classifiers whereas European languages do not; many languages do not have a distinction between adjectives and adverbs, adjectives and verbs or adjectives and nouns, etc. This variation in the number of categories and their identifying properties entails that analysis be done for each individual language. Nevertheless the labels for each category are assigned on the basis of universal criteria.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORD CLASS

word association
word blindness
word burst
word deafness
word for word
word formation
word game
word list
Word of God
word of honour
word of mouth
word order
word picture
word processing
word processor
word sense disambiguation
word square
word stress
word wrap
word wrapping

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORD CLASS

business class
class
club class
first class
first-class
form class
glass
high-class
master class
masterclass
middle class
middle-class
second class
second-class
subclass
top-class
upper class
upper-class
working class
working-class
world-class

Synonyms and antonyms of word class in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «word class» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORD CLASS

Find out the translation of word class to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of word class from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «word class» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

字级
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

clase de palabras
570 millions of speakers

English

word class
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शब्द क्लास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطبقة كلمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

класс слово
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

classe de palavras
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দ শ্রেণী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

classe de mots
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelas kata
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wortklasse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

品詞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단어 클래스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kelas tembung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lớp từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சொல் வகுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्ड क्लास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kelime sınıfı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

classe di parola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Klasa słowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

клас слово
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clasa de cuvânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατηγορία λέξης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

woord klas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ordklass
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ordklasse
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORD CLASS»

The term «word class» is regularly used and occupies the 108.135 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORD CLASS» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORD CLASS»

Discover the use of word class in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to word class and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Word-Class Flexibility in Classical Chinese: Verbal and ...
This book seeks to interpret the notorious word-class flexibility in Classical Chinese in a new way, based on a multi-disciplinary perspective and the theoretical background of cognitive linguistics.
Lukas Zadrapa, 2011
2
Yearbook of Morphology 2003
... barnbayi ja-wurla-wu-yi-n tease 3–3pl-hit-refl-prs 'they are joking with Preverbs as an open word class in Northern Australian languages 159.
G. E. Booij, Jaap van Marle, 2003
3
Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
Like the second property word class, the action word class lacks distinct singular and plural stem forms. Unlike either property word class, the action word class inflects in perfective, progressive and habitual aspects: agiko/agiko/dgikko ...
Petra Maria Vogel, Bernard Comrie, 2000
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Handbook of Word-Formation
In the first three Types (truckdriver, writer, honeybee), the onomasiological base determines the word-class irrespective of whether it takes the form of affix or base ). The head for restart, which exemplifies Type 4, is identified with re- which, ...
Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, 2005
5
Word-formation and Creolisation: The Case of Early Sranan
Moreover, it shows that an underspecification account of word- class change phenomena should not be limited to mere postulating of some features as underspecified. More importantly, such an account should provide explanations of why ...
Maria Braun, 2009
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Word Class and Word Formation Processes with Reference to Mising
"Word Class and Word Formation processes with reference to Mising" discusses properties of the Mising lexicon, focusing primarily on the major open classes-noun, adjective and verb.
Sarat Kumar Doley, 2012
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Understanding Morphological Rules: With Special Emphasis on ...
The data are organized according to the following three criteria: (1) +/À word- class change; (2) word-class of the output; and (3) type of the base (whether word , stem or root). It should be noted that since the theoretical framework of this book  ...
Stela Manova, 2011
8
A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification: From MIP to ...
Even though there are significant main effects of register and of word class, these cannot be taken on their own because of the significant highest-order interaction between metaphor, register, and word class (χ2(21) = 890.95, p < 0.000).
Gerard Steen, 2010
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The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language
All of these factors may well be important, and, indeed, noun/verb word class effects in behavior may be a composite manifestation of multiple kinds of processing differences. For example, in a series of ERP studies, we have examined the ...
Miriam Faust, 2011
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Typological Changes in the Lexicon: Analytic Tendencies in ...
syntactically the derivatives behave like members of the derived word class. Since the new words are formed by means of highly productive rules and the process is relevant to syntax, due to the different syntactic behavior of the inflected item, ...
Alexander Haselow, 2011

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Word class [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/word-class>. Apr 2024 ».
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