Meaning of Morpheme | Babel Free
ˈmɔː.fiːmDefinitions
The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
Equivalents
བོད་སྐད
སྒྲ་དོམ་ཕྲ་མོ
Català
morfema
Čeština
morfém
Dansk
morfem
Deutsch
Morphem
Ελληνικά
μόρφημα
Esperanto
morfemo
Español
morfema
فارسی
تکواژ
Suomi
morfeemi
Français
morphème
हिन्दी
रूपिम
Magyar
morféma
Հայերեն
ձևույթ
Italiano
morfema
日本語
形態素
Қазақша
морфема
한국어
형태소
Kurdî
morfem
Македонски
морфема
Монгол
бүтээвэр
Bahasa Melayu
morfem
Polski
morfem
Português
morfema
Română
morfem
Русский
морфема
Shqip
morfemë
Svenska
morfem
Kiswahili
mofimu
ไทย
หน่วยคำ
Tagalog
morpema
Examples
“Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.”
“There is therefore a natural tendency in both American and European structural linguistics to insist that the word should be syntactically decomposed. For writers such as Hockett (1958), or for that matter the early Chomsky (1957), the indivisible unit of grammar was the morpheme, and the relationship of morpheme to morpheme within the word […] was to be handled no differently from that of word to word in any larger structure.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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