lexical category

English

Noun

lexical category (plural lexical categories)

(grammar) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.

Synonyms

word class
lexical class
part of speech

Translations

linguistic category of words

Chinese:
Mandarin: 詞彙範疇, 词汇范畴 (cíhuì fànchóu), 詞類 (zh), 词类 (zh) (cílèi), 詞性 (zh), 词性 (zh) (cíxìng)
Czech: slovní druh (cs) m
Finnish: sanaluokka (fi)
French: partie du discours (fr) f, catégorie lexicale (fr) f, classe lexicale (fr) f, nature (fr) f

Hungarian: szófaj (hu)
Japanese: 品詞 (ja) (hinshi)
Korean: 품사 (ko) (pumsa)
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

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