Category:Yoruba lemmas

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Yoruba lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.

• Category:Yoruba adjectives: Yoruba terms that give attributes to nouns, extending their definitions.
• Category:Yoruba adverbs: Yoruba terms that modify clauses, sentences and phrases directly.
• Category:Yoruba conjunctions: Yoruba terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together.
• Category:Yoruba determiners: Yoruba terms that narrow down, within the conversational context, the referent of the following noun.
• Category:Yoruba ideophones: Yoruba terms that evoke an idea, especially a sensation or impression, with a sound.
• Category:Yoruba interjections: Yoruba terms that express emotions, sounds, etc. as exclamations.
• Category:Yoruba morphemes: Yoruba word-elements used to form full words.
• Category:Yoruba multiword terms: Yoruba lemmas that are an idiomatic combination of multiple words.
• Category:Yoruba nouns: Yoruba terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
• Category:Yoruba numerals: Yoruba terms that quantify nouns.
• Category:Yoruba particles: Yoruba 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:Yoruba phrases: Yoruba groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
• Category:Yoruba prepositions: Yoruba adpositions that are placed before their objects.
• Category:Yoruba pronouns: Yoruba terms that refer to and substitute nouns.
• Category:Yoruba verbs: Yoruba terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.