bound form

English

Etymology

bound + form

Noun

bound form (plural bound forms)

1. (linguistics) a unit of language that can only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own (such as the English suffix -ly).

Synonyms

• bound morpheme

Translations

bound form

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黏附形式 (niánfù xíngshì)

• Finnish: sidonnainen morfeemi (fi)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• affix
• prefix
• suffix
• infix