Meaning

1 senses
  1. A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

    Wortart, Wortklasse, Redeteil

    часть ре́чиčastʹ réči

    части́на мо́виčastýna móvy

More definitions
  • one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

Examples

18 sentences
  1. You should take part in that speech contest.

    deDu solltest an diesem Redewettbewerb teilnehmen! — Waldelfe

  2. Are you going to take part in the English speech contest?

    deNimmst du an dem englischen Redewettbewerb teil? — Zaghawa

  3. We took it for granted that she would take part in the speech contest.

  4. I discovered too late that I left out the most important part of my speech.

    ruЯ слишком поздно обнаружил, что пропустил самую главную часть своего доклада. — Biga

    deIch entdeckte zu spät, dass ich den wichtigsten Teil meiner Rede ausgelassen hatte. — Esperantostern

  5. Understanding parts-of-speech is extremely important for getting the feel of word order.

    Розуміння частин мови надзвичайно важливе для вироблення відчуття порядку слів. — marko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties:
Русский
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linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties:
Deutsch
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linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties:

Origin

From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.

From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.

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Forms

plural: parts of speech
Singularpart of speech
Pluralparts of speech

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

5 synonyms
lexical categoryword classlexical classsyntactic category
Close in meaning
  • one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context:form classword class

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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