Meaning of Interjection | Babel Free
ɪn.təˈdʒɛk.ʃənDefinitions
- An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
- An interruption; something interjected
Equivalents
Azərbaycanca
nida
Български
междуметие
Català
interjecció
Dansk
udråbsord
Esperanto
interjekcio
Español
interjección
Eesti
hüüdsõna
فارسی
ندا
Français
interjection
Gaeilge
intriacht
Galego
interxección
हिन्दी
हरफ़
Հայերեն
ձայնարկություն
Íslenska
upphrópun
ქართული
შორისდებული
Қазақша
одағай
한국어
감탄사
Kurdî
nîda
Latina
interiectiō
Lietuvių
jaustukas
മലയാളം
വ്യാക്ഷേപകം
Bahasa Melayu
kata seru
မြန်မာဘာသာ
အာမေဍိတ်
Nederlands
tussenwerpsel
Português
interjeição
Română
interjecție
Slovenčina
citoslovce
Shqip
pasthirrmë
ไทย
อุทาน
Tiếng Việt
thán từ
Examples
“322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.”
“Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf. (21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP) (21) (b) ^✽Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)”
“Mnuchin, asked about climate change in a CNBC interview after his comments about Thunberg, argued there were bigger issues that also needed to be addressed. When a host noted clean air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
See also
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