Meaning

7 senses

  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

    Beistrich, Komma

    запята́яzapjatája

    пере́тинкаperétynka, ко́маkóma

    a punctuation mark (‘,’) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence

  2. (Romanian)A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

    C-Falter

  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

  6. (rhetoric)In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.

  7. (figuratively)A brief interval.

    Komma

    коммаkomma

    комаkoma

Examples

92 sentences

  1. A comma is needed here.

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  2. There is still a comma missing.

    Тут і досі бракує коми. — deniko

    deEs fehlt noch ein Komma. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. You can't replace the comma with a period in this sentence.

    У цьому реченні кому не можна поміняти на крапку. — deniko

    ruВ этом предложении запятую нельзя заменить точкой. — astynk

    deMan kann das Komma in diesem Satz nicht durch einen Punkt ersetzen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. The comma is superfluous.

    Кома зайва. — deniko

    ruЗапятая лишняя. — marafon

    deDas Komma ist überflüssig. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. This text has no commas.

    У цьому тексті немає ком. — deniko

    ruВ этом тексте нет запятых. — Selena777

    deDieser Text hat keine Kommas. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
punctuation mark ',':
very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways:
Русский
By meaning 2
punctuation mark ',':
very small musical interval as the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
punctuation mark ',':
butterfly:

Origin

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: commas
Singularcomma
Pluralcommas

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
comeA1scratch commavirgulevirgulacomma-point
Close in meaning
  • anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing:comma butterflyPolygonia comma

Word family

18 related words
Derivedcomma bacilluscomma butterflycomma categorycommalesscomma lichencommalikecomma-pointcomma queencomma splicecommifydecimal commadun commaenumeration commafat commahigh commaideographic commamyocommaseries comma

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
comicalcomingcommandB1commanderB2commandment

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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