Meaning

9 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.

  2. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.

    (uncountable)The study of such a system.

    Grammatik, Grammatiktheorie, Sprachlehre

    грамма́тикаgrammátika

  3. (uncountable)Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.

  4. (countable)A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.

  5. (countable)A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.

    Grammatik

    грамма́тикаgrammátika

  6. (countable)A formal system defining a formal language.

  7. (countable, figuratively)The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.

  8. (countable)A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.

  9. (UK, archaic, countable)A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.

    a grammar of geography

More definitions
  • the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)

Examples

297 sentences

  1. You must study grammar more.

    Тобі треба більше вчити граматику. — deniko

    ruВам надо больше заниматься грамматикой. — marafon

    deDu musst mehr Grammatik lernen. — Yorwba

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  2. Grammar is very complicated.

    Граматика — дуже складна штука. — deniko

    ruГрамматика очень сложная. — Biga

    deGrammatik ist sehr kompliziert. — Adelpa

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  3. I think French grammar is difficult.

    Мені здається, французька граматика складна. — deniko

    ruЯ думаю, грамматика французского трудная. — paul_lingvo

    deIch finde die französische Grammatik schwierig. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. I was never good at grammar.

    ruМне никогда не давалась грамматика. — Balamax

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  5. I know a lot about grammar.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
rules for speaking and writing a language:
Русский
By meaning 2
rules for speaking and writing a language:
book describing grammar:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
rules for speaking and writing a language:
study of internal structure and use of words:

Origin

From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattes

From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.

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Forms

plural: grammars

Synonyms

1 synonyms
study & field of study in medieval Latin contexts:glomery

Word family

37 related words
Relatedglamourgramaryegrammaticalgrammatic
Derivedcase grammarcategorial grammarcompositional grammarconstruction grammarcontext-free grammarcryptogrammardependency grammarethnogrammarformal grammargenerative grammargrammar checkergrammar copgrammaresegrammariangrammar inductiongrammarismgrammarizegrammarlessgrammarlikegrammar nazigrammar-oriented programminggrammar policegrammar schoolgrammeme

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
grainB2grainygramA2grammariangrammaticalgramophonegran
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