grammatical

English

Etymology

From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticālis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grəmăt'ĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈmætɪkəl/

• Audio (US):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɡrəˈmaʈɪkəl/, /ˈɡraməʈɪkəl/

Adjective

grammatical (comparative more grammatical, superlative most grammatical)

2. Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.

   Synonym: grammatic

   Antonyms: ungrammatical, agrammatical, ungrammatic

   Coordinate term: idiomatic

   Your writing in English is not grammatical enough for publication, so we will hire an editor to fix it where necessary while preserving the intended meaning.

   These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.

4. Of or pertaining to grammar.

   Synonym: grammatic

   The writing was measured for both grammatical complexity and accuracy factors.

Derived terms

• antegrammatical
• antigrammatical
• cryptogrammatical
• grammatical alternation
• grammatical aspect
• grammatical case
• grammatical category
• grammatical gender
• grammaticality
• grammaticalization
• grammaticalize
• grammatically
• grammatical mood
• grammaticalness
• grammatical person
• grammatical word
• historical-grammatical
• historico-grammatical
• hypergrammatical
• lexicogrammatical
• metagrammatical
• neogrammatical
• nongrammatical
• paragrammatical
• subgrammatical

Translations

acceptable as determined by the rules of the grammar

• Afrikaans: grammatikaal (af)
• Albanian: gramatikor (sq)
• Arabic: نَحْوِيّ (ar) (naḥwiyy)
• Armenian: քերականորեն ճիշտ (kʻerakanoren čišt)
• Belarusian: граматы́чны (hramatýčny)
• Bulgarian: грамати́чески (bg) (gramatíčeski)
• Catalan: gramatical (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通順 / 通顺 (zh) (tōngshùn), 無語病的 / 无语病的 (wú yǔbìng de)

• Czech: gramatický (cs)
• Danish: grammatisk, grammatikalsk
• Dutch: grammaticaal (nl)
• Esperanto: laŭgramatika
• Finnish: kieliopillinen (fi)
• French: grammatical (fr)
• Galician: gramatical (gl)
• Georgian: გრამატიკული (gramaṭiḳuli), სწორი (sc̣ori), გრამატიკულად სწორი (gramaṭiḳulad sc̣ori), მართებული (martebuli), გრამატიკულად მართებული (gramaṭiḳulad martebuli)
• German: grammatisch (de), grammatikalisch (de); (but usually grammatisch (de) korrekt (de) / richtig (de))
• Greek: γραμματικός (el) m (grammatikós)

  Ancient Greek: γραμματικός m (grammatikós)

• Hebrew: דִקְדוּקִי (dikdukí)
• Hungarian: nyelvtanilag/nyelvileg helyes, jól formált
• Icelandic: grammatískur n
• Italian: grammaticale (it)
• Japanese: 文法的な (ja) (ぶんぽうてきな, bunpōteki na)
• Korean: 문법적(文法的) (ko) (munbeopjeok)
• Latin: grammaticālis
• Lombard: gramatical
• Macedonian: граматички (gramatički)
• Malay: gramatis
• Manx: grammeydagh
• Norman: granmatical
• Polish: gramatyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: gramatical (pt), gramático (pt)
• Romanian: gramatical (ro)
• Russian: граммати́ческий (ru) (grammatíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грама̀тичкӣ

  Latin: gramàtičkī (sh)

• Slovak: gramatický (sk)
• Slovene: slóvničen
• Spanish: gramatical (es)
• Swedish: grammatisk (sv)
• Thai: ตามไวยากรณ์ (dtaam wai-yaa-gɔɔn)
• Ukrainian: грамати́чний (hramatýčnyj)
• Vehes: gramatical
• Yiddish: גראַמאַטיש (gramatish)

of or pertaining to grammar

• Afrikaans: grammatikaal (af)
• Albanian: gramatikor (sq)
• Arabic: نَحْوِيّ (ar) (naḥwiyy)
• Armenian: քերականական (hy) (kʻerakanakan)
• Azerbaijani: qrammatik
• Belarusian: граматы́чны (hramatýčny)
• Breton: yezhadurel (br)
• Bulgarian: грамати́чески (bg) (gramatíčeski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語法的 / 语法的 (zh) (yǔfǎ de)

• Czech: gramatický (cs)
• Danish: grammatisk, grammatikalsk
• Dutch: grammaticaal (nl)
• Esperanto: gramatika
• Finnish: kieliopillinen (fi), kielioppi-
• French: grammatical (fr)
• Georgian: გრამატიკული (gramaṭiḳuli)
• German: grammatisch (de); grammatikalisch (de)
• Greek: γραμματικός (el) m (grammatikós)
• Hebrew: דִקְדוּקִי (dikdukí)
• Hungarian: nyelvtani (hu)
• Icelandic: grammatískur, málfræðilegur
• Italian: grammaticale (it)
• Japanese: 文法的な (ja) (ぶんぽうてきな, bunpōteki na)
• Kazakh: грамматикалық (grammatikalyq)
• Korean: 문법적(文法的) (ko) (munbeopjeok)
• Kyrgyz: грамматикалык (ky) (grammatikalık)
• Latin: grammaticālis
• Low German:

  German Low German: grammatisch

• Macedonian: граматички (gramatički)
• Manx: grammeydagh
• Norman: granmatical
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grammatisk (no)

  Nynorsk: grammatisk

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دَسْتوری (dasturi), صَرْف و نَحْوی (sarf o nahvi)

• Polish: gramatyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: gramático (pt), gramatical (pt)
• Romanian: gramatical (ro)
• Russian: граммати́ческий (ru) (grammatíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грама̀тичкӣ

  Latin: gramàtičkī (sh)

• Slovak: gramatický (sk)
• Slovene: slovničen
• Spanish: gramático (es)
• Swedish: grammatisk (sv)
• Tajik: грамматикӣ (tg) (grammatiki)
• Turkish: dil bilgisi (tr)
• Ukrainian: грамати́чний (hramatýčnyj)
• Uzbek: grammatik (uz)
• Yiddish: גראַמאַטיש (gramatish)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French grammatical, from Late Latin grammaticālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal/, /ɡʁam.ma.ti.kal/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

grammatical (feminine grammaticale, masculine plural grammaticaux, feminine plural grammaticales)

1. grammatical

   Antonym: agrammatical

Derived terms

• cas grammatical
• grammaticalement
• mot grammatical
• sujet grammatical

Related terms

• grammaire
• grammairien

Further reading

• “grammatical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Norman

Adjective

grammatical m

1. alternative form of granmatical

Portuguese

Adjective

grammatical m or f (plural grammaticais)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of gramatical