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Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.

Equivalents

العربية كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة
Deutsch Funktionswort Hilfswort Leerwort Synsemantikum
Español palabra cenemática palabra funcional palabra gramatical
Français mot grammatical mot-outil
Italiano parola vuota
日本語 機能語
한국어 문법형태소
Nederlands functiewoord
Polski funktor
Português palavra gramatical
Русский служебное сло́во
Tiếng Việt hư từ

Examples

“Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

function-evaluation routine functionability functional functional analysis functional beverage functional constituency

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