Category:Chinese lemmas

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Chinese lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.

• Category:Chinese adjectives: Chinese terms that give attributes to nouns, extending their definitions.
• Category:Chinese adverbs: Chinese terms that modify clauses, sentences and phrases directly.
• Category:Chinese circumpositions: Chinese adpositions that appear on both sides of their objects.
• Category:Chinese classifiers: Chinese terms that classify nouns according to their meanings.
• Category:Chinese conjunctions: Chinese terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together.
• Category:Chinese determiners: Chinese terms that narrow down, within the conversational context, the referent of following noun.
• Category:Chinese interjections: Chinese terms that express emotions, sounds, etc. as exclamations.
• Category:Chinese morphemes: Chinese word-elements used to form full words.
• Category:Chinese nouns: Chinese terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
• Category:Chinese numerals: Chinese terms that quantify nouns.
• Category:Chinese particles: Chinese terms that do not belong to any of the inflected grammatical word classes, often lacking their own grammatical functions and forming other parts of speech or expressing the relationship between clauses.
• Category:Chinese phrases: Chinese groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
• Category:Chinese postpositions: Chinese adpositions that are placed after their objects.
• Category:Chinese prepositions: Chinese adpositions that are placed before their objects.
• Category:Chinese pronouns: Chinese terms that refer to and substitute nouns.
• Category:Chinese proper nouns: Chinese nouns that indicate individual entities, such as names of persons, places or organizations.
• Category:Chinese verbs: Chinese terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.