part of speech

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Noun

part of speech (plural parts of speech)

1. (grammar) A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
   • 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 269:

     One group of substantives, the gerunds (scolding), belongs to a form-class with infinitives and with other verb-forms, in serving as head for certain types of modifiers, such as a goal (scolding the boys). For this reason a system of parts of speech in a language like English cannot be set up in any fully satisfactory way: our list of parts of speech will depend upon which functions we take to be the most important.

Synonyms

• lexical category
• syntactic category
• lexical class
• word class

Translations

the function a word or phrase performs

• Albanian: pjesë e ligjëratës (sq) f
• Armenian: խոսքի մաս (hy) (xosk'i mas)
• Bashkir: һүҙ төркөмө (hüð törkömö)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞類 (cmn), 词类 (cmn) (cílèi), 詞性 (cmn), 词性 (cmn) (cíxìng)

• Czech: slovní druh (cs) m
• Danish: ordklasse (da) c
• Dutch: zinsdeel (nl) n, woordsoort (nl) f
• Esperanto: parolparto (eo)
• Finnish: sanaluokka (fi)
• French: classe lexicale (fr) f, partie du discours (fr) f
• German: Wortart (de) f
• Hebrew: חלק דיבור (he) (khélek dibúr) m
• Icelandic: orðflokkur (is) m
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can

• Italian: parte del discorso (it) f
• Japanese: 品詞 (ja) (ひんし, hinshi)
• Korean: 품사 (ko) (pum-sa)
• Latin: pars ōrātiōnis (la)
• Norwegian: ordklasse (no)
• Polish: część mowy (pl) f
• Portuguese: classe gramatical (pt) f
• Romanian: parte de vorbire (ro) f
• Russian: часть речи (ru) (čast’ réči) f
• Slovene: besedna vrsta (sl) f
• Spanish: parte de la oración (es) f, parte de oración (es) f, categoría gramatical (es) f, parte del habla (es) f
• Swedish: ordklass (sv) c
• Telugu: భాషాభాగము (te) (bhAshAbhAgamu)
• Yiddish: ווערטערקלאַס (yi) (verterklas) m

See also

• (parts of speech) part of speech; adjective, article, adverb, determiner, conjunction, interjection, noun, numeral, particle, participle, postposition, preposition, pronoun, verb ^{(Category: en:Parts of speech)}